Thought on torture
Apr. 23rd, 2009 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularApparently one pundit said he'd be willing to undergo waterboarding, as a fundraiser for charity.
I wonder if he'd still be so blase about it with the following caveats:
1) No advance notice as to when the torture would begin.
2) No specifics as to how long the torture would last, or how often the torture would be repeated.
3) No freedom to do anything in between torture sessions.
4) No guarantee that he'd survive the torture.
I'm sorry, but waterboarding is torture, it's morally repugnant per se, and its practitioners and apologists should be ready to be metaphorically barbecued for an excruciatingly long period of time.
Whoever and wherever they are.
That is all.
I wonder if he'd still be so blase about it with the following caveats:
1) No advance notice as to when the torture would begin.
2) No specifics as to how long the torture would last, or how often the torture would be repeated.
3) No freedom to do anything in between torture sessions.
4) No guarantee that he'd survive the torture.
I'm sorry, but waterboarding is torture, it's morally repugnant per se, and its practitioners and apologists should be ready to be metaphorically barbecued for an excruciatingly long period of time.
Whoever and wherever they are.
That is all.
