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Originally Posted by roachboy
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what are your motivations in thinking "you know, there's something kinda broad about this notion of torture"?
what are you hoping to accomplish by it?
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I've been quite open, or at least I thought I have been.
I just want to know what individuals are voting on.
Like I have posted, withholding a day's rations and/or sleep to me is not torture. I'm sure that I could answer "I never would approve torture" but my parameters and definition maybe quite different than another's.
I do not think it wrong nor improper to ask for one's belief in what they consider torture.
It's easy to point to laws and treaties and say that. Meanwhile, the press reports this is happening and that person says "ohhhh my that also", while another scratches their head going "how is that torture?"
I'm trying to say how can you condemn something if you are not willing to give the parameters on that which you condemn? The parameters will always change as will the vagueness until neither condemnation nor act mean anything.