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Originally posted by whaaa
Originally posted by Res_ipsa_loquitur
I would not wish that on anyone but the incidents of innocents being abducted vastly outnumbers those who have had a connection.
Then, as a post grad law student, you know that the above statement need some proof. Otherwise you are nothing more than a common troll.
Originally posted by Res Ipsa
Just friggin great, couldn't you have come up with a more original username?
People are going to confuse me with you. I suppose I should dump my signiture now.
Originally posted by Res Ipsa
Just friggin great, couldn't you have come up with a more original username?
People are going to confuse me with you. I suppose I should dump my signiture now.
Originally posted by Res_ipsa_loquitur
As I am sure you will be aware, the figures aren't readily available to the general public for me to support my claim, it was a mere generalization.
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The assumption that others feel pain as we do makes democracy possible. It is the foundation for our confidence that all Americans are entitled to the same rights and freedoms. Because respecting human dignity is the essence of democracy, there is no calculus in which our democracy can be protected by torturing others.
The moment we treat another human being as an animal, the moment we stop sympathizing with his or her pain and suffering, we are training ourselves to be despots and betraying the American Revolution's promise to the world. The moment we admit that it is OK to torture another human being — to deny his or her body human dignity — the terrorists have already won.
Originally posted by Res_ipsa_loquitur
Originally posted by Res Ipsa
Just friggin great, couldn't you have come up with a more original username?
People are going to confuse me with you. I suppose I should dump my signiture now.
I apologise, I didn't realise that the usage of a latin phrase used in tort could amount to unoriginality.
Originally posted by Res_ipsa_loquitur
I think writing a 15,000 word legal dissertation on the legality of torture in a international law context suggests I may have a clue on the subject.
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind
[Torture] doesn't work. It often is misleading, as in the case of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, an Al Qaeda lieutenant who was tortured into saying that Saddam Hussein worked with Al Qaeda and had weapons of mass destruction. That was the information that the U.S. was trying to get out of him, and he gave it to the interrogators under torture, and that became part of the rationale for the U.S. going to war with Iraq -- a disastrous consequence of choosing an unethical approach to gaining information."