Even a Blind Squirrel…
Joe Carter, with whom I disagree on virtually everything, gets one right in his Open Letter to the Religious Right:
I can’t make excuses for us on this one anymore: Christians have to take a firm stand against torture. Yes, there is a debate about what exactly is meant by that term. Let’s have that debate. Let’s define the term in a way that consistent with our belief in human dignity. And then let’s hold every politician in the country to that standard. Our silence on this issue has become embarrassing.
Cross-posted at LeanLeft.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but the only thing that needs to be defined is whether or not water boarding is torture. Is that right?
I have no idea. Waterboarding is the only “enhanced interrogation technique” that we know our government has used; that doesn’t make it the only one it has used.
But in terms of waterboarding, do you seriously argue that it doesn’t demean human dignity?
Just about all of the interrogation techniques can be said to “demean human dignity”. If you forced me to listen to some really loud Eminem, I would probably tell you anything you wanted to know, and certainly consider my dignity to have been demeaned.
How would that fail to meet the definition of “torture?”
Seriously, though, listening to Eminem doesn’t simulate a particularly horrible way of dying.