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Originally Posted by pan6467
withholding 1 days rations and exercise to me is not torture, it is probably an uncomfortable and maybe unpleasant treatment of a POW or prisoner.... yet not 1 person has stood up and stated "I agree with that"....
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I'll answer that, if only to stop the question from being repeated so many times.
Food, like air and water, is a basic human necessity. We all require it to survive, and to refuse it to any human being, regardless of why you are refusing it, could be construed as torture. What degree of torture this is, I cannot say and refuse to get involved in a semantic debate about shades of gray, but it is indeed SOME form of torture. Refuse someone food for a few hours or so and it can be considered cruel, perhaps even inhumane to some perspectives. Refuse someone food for weeks at a time, and it will probably become murder .. but somewhere between the two and it most certainly becomes torture. Where exactly, I cannot say.
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Originally Posted by pan6467
BTW this is not a discussion of whether or not we needed to be there or not. I have never been for this war, but I'll be damned if we have treat POWs better than our own men. And I'll be truly damned if I was serving and had someone that killed my friends and was told to treat him like he was an innocent and give him every amenity possible.
Sorry no fucking way. I'm not going to "torture" torture you but I'm not going to make your confinement a pleasant stay in a 5 star hotel either.
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First, I don't think anyone is saying we must treat prisoners BETTER than we treat our own soldiers and such, we are expected to treat them humanely within the letter of the law .. no more.
Second, if you're in a war zone and you "capture" someone who "killed your friends" .. dude .. make sure they're armed, (bullets optional) then kill them BEFORE you capture them, problem solved.
