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Waterboard Demo
Wanting to put his money (as it were) where his mouth was, a seemingly self-confessed conservative decided to find out just how bad waterboarding really was. The verdict: it's pretty damned awful. The author seems to consider it inhumanly so.
Being a student of European history makes gaining knowledge on the myriad and manifold techniques of man's inhumanity to man essentially inevitable. Knowing these things (albeit in the third-person context), I have to say waterboarding really doesn't sound that bad. Since all serious forms of torture will eventually result in capitulation, a method which acts quickly and causes no permanent physical injury would seem ideal for everyone involved.
In other words, waterboarding would seem to have it all over being pulled on the rack. But I've always had problems with moral relativism. Like you didn't know that.
The controversy over waterboarding is really a cover for the continuing de-legitimazation of all means of self defense by pacifists. Not only waterboarding, but all forms of psychological coercion are being redefined as "war crimes" by such bodies as Amnesty International, as have checkpoints, sanctions, and even plain old walls.
The end goal is a world where every form of discrimination or differentiation is a war crime. In theory, this will create a world without religious and moral distinctions that lead to strife. Of course, in practice the theory will be bunk, because strife will continue to exist as long as anyone has anything worth living for; we'll just return to the good old days when you could completely obliterate a neighboring city over a messy divorce, and be immortalized in poetry because nobody is allowed to condemn you. But, like communism and fascism, that won't keep millions of people (possibly billions, today) from being murdered trying to impose a theory over any practical objections.
Which is a winning situation, for the nihilistically redefined value of "win" used by the modern environmentalists.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on December 28, 2007 08:43 AM