RE: At least one Canadian get it.
November 15, 2014 at 2:15 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2014 at 2:30 am by Heywood.)
(November 14, 2014 at 9:37 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 13, 2014 at 7:21 pm)Heywood Wrote: Water boarding isn't torture because it isn't severe. Water boarding is torture because it is severe.
I invite you to try it sometimes. There are many who have and came out with very different opinions on it's severity.
Well you're quoting me out of context. My point was that the word "severe" isn't meaningful to defining what is and isn't torture. The word is so nebulous and open to interpretation that one person's enhanced interrogation technique is another person torture.
Under my definition of torture....water boarding is torture.....regardless of whether or not you find it "severe". I don't need to experience water boarding to know that it is torture. Water boarding is torture because it satisfies my definition of torture.....but so is making a young martial arts student stand in an uncomfortable position for 10 minutes for disrupting the class.
The difference between me and you is I don't find the use of torture to be necessarily bad. To be quite honest...you and others that do find it necessarily bad remind me of Mr. Mackey on South Park...replace "drugs" with "torture" and that's what you sound like to me.
Torture is a tool used by human beings for both good and evil.
