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Is anyone arguing that torture is not something that happens in Guantanamo? By now it should be common knowledge that it's a torture camp. Obama promised to shu
by Kenji 11y ago
Is anyone arguing that torture is not something that happens in Guantanamo? By now it should be common knowledge that it's a torture camp. Obama promised to shut it down but he didn't.
- rudolf0 11y agoI don't think anyone on HN has argued that, but many people in the general public still insist that "enhanced interrogation" like what's done in Guantanamo is not actually torture. Or at least they used to, until Obama finally admitted people have been tortured; though some still insist it isn't torture. My question was more hypothetical. That seems like the very definition of torture.
- georgemcbay 11y agoThose people know it is really torture, they are just able to handwave it away because the people it is happening to believe in a slightly different god than they do.
- gclaramunt 11y agoIs not torture when the good guys do it! Specially when there's a ticking bomb
- rancur 11y agoI'm sorry, were you one of those silly students I was in college with who thought he would?