Force-feeding hunger strikers is the opposite of "moral high ground." If you're a jailer, and a prisoner dies in your care, then there may be questions asked, t

Force-feeding hunger strikers is the opposite of "moral high ground." If you're a jailer, and a prisoner dies in your care, then there may be questions asked, there may be accountability. You don't want that. As long as you can keep them more or less alive, it's a lot easier to piously claim the moral high ground while doing basically whatever you want to them. It's propaganda. It's not done because we value their lives, but specifically because we don't.