{"id":5961,"date":"2016-12-12T04:04:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T04:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/12\/is-waterboarding-torture\/"},"modified":"2016-12-12T04:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T04:04:42","slug":"is-waterboarding-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/12\/is-waterboarding-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Waterboarding Torture?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a> is the opinion of a man who has both done it and had it done to him.  "I volunteered to be waterboarded myself and can assure you that it is not a pleasant experience. But no one volunteers to be tortured."<\/span><\/p>\n

Words mean things. They ought to be used responsibly. No good purpose is served by exaggeration in a context such as this. If waterboarding is torture, what would you call having a red-hot poker rammed 12 inches up your anal cavity?  Would anyone volunteer for that?  <\/span><\/p>\n

Come Thursday  it will be the fifth anniversary of the death of Christopher Hitchens. He, along with other journalists, allowed himself to be waterboarded.<\/span><\/p>\n

I grant, however, that being waterboarded by friends is considerably different from being so treated by enemies.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is the opinion of a man who has both done it and had it done to him.  "I volunteered to be waterboarded myself and can assure you that it is not a pleasant experience. But no one volunteers to be tortured." Words mean things. They ought to be used responsibly. No good purpose is … Continue reading “Is Waterboarding Torture?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,443,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism","category-torture","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}