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i don't want to speak for cyn---but i accounted for that before i started making a response. i don't buy the claim that torture carried out by a state apparatus can be thought about using the model of person A doing something that person W doesn't do and the Problem of torture is basically that some Outside Judge expects W to "feel guilty" about it. that evacuates the whole question as it actually is---so i routed things back the other way, and then ticked off problems one after the other. because torture represents a system-level political problem no matter what people inside the system may think on the question. this simply because of the legal context, the international context and the fact that "i don't really feel bad about this" is a minority position.
anyway, that's why the moves are as they are.
i could be wrong about the logic.
it's happened before. it'll happen again.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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