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Originally Posted by roachboy
ace--what exactly is the point that you imagine yourself to be making with this?
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You know me, I have this thing with hypotheticals and analogies. When my mind is not fully occupied, I just start thinking about what-if and silly little comparisons. I have been doing since childhood. Today, I do even when I am walking down the street - what would I do if someone put a gun in my back and asked for my wallet? What would I do if I saw that happening to the elderly woman in front of me? Just one of my many idiosyncrasies. But then I don't do drugs, smoke, or drink.
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the rationale behind conventions that ban torture and other war crimes have to do with two basic problems:
a) inflicting excessive pain
b) placing limits around the collective psychosis of war.
the first should be obvious even to you.
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No it is not clear. For example my pain tolerances are very different from my spouses. In some things she tolerates more or less pain than I can. Our threshold of what we would consider "torture" are different. So, when Bush tried to get clearly defined parameters for enhance interrogation techinques, I think that was a good thing and I think it was the moral thing to do, rather than leaving the issue to chance and being vague.