Two people tortured each other several times to determine if water boarding is torture. hot air offers A possible alternative standard: If it is torture, you probably wouldn’t be willing to have it done to you. In this posting: Too good to check: DUers “prove” waterboarding is torture — by waterboarding each other - They (DUs) must of been asleep when their teacher discussed Logical Fallacies - strawman which is what they seem to have become.
Break down the straw man’s argument and you win your argument. I can not resist pointing out they did not test if thumb screws are torture - do they draw the line at things that cause pain as something not to test? As they seem to have defined torture as something that you want to stop doing after 20 seconds … that is about all the rap music I can take! So we need to make sure nobody plays rap music to prisoners as well.
My feeling on waterboarding is if there are other methods such as the sword of damocles of being locked up and called a number instead of a name, being denied contact with people that like you to talk with, being in isolation, being moved from place to place, not knowing what will eventually happen, ect — that could be used they should … if other methods are as effective then water boarding is sadistic.
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