Comments on: If waterboarding isn’t that bad, then why do we use it? http://egalicontrarian.com/index.php/2009/05/23/if-waterboarding-isnt-that-bad-then-why-do-we-use-it/ a blog full of magic Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:33:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: J.K. http://egalicontrarian.com/index.php/2009/05/23/if-waterboarding-isnt-that-bad-then-why-do-we-use-it/comment-page-1/#comment-105 J.K. Sat, 23 May 2009 19:37:40 +0000 http://egalicontrarian.com/?p=248#comment-105 And perhaps there's a subtle but appreciable distinction between torture and death or injury (the costs of war). I, for one, tend to think there is. If such is the case, just war theory in its many versions is justifiable--that is, if it ever was. If war were just widespread physical torture-in-the-real-sense, then of course it wouldn't be a credible justification for war. And perhaps there’s a subtle but appreciable distinction between torture and death or injury (the costs of war). I, for one, tend to think there is. If such is the case, just war theory in its many versions is justifiable–that is, if it ever was.

If war were just widespread physical torture-in-the-real-sense, then of course it wouldn’t be a credible justification for war.

]]> By: J.K. http://egalicontrarian.com/index.php/2009/05/23/if-waterboarding-isnt-that-bad-then-why-do-we-use-it/comment-page-1/#comment-104 J.K. Sat, 23 May 2009 17:40:46 +0000 http://egalicontrarian.com/?p=248#comment-104 I wonder if we could just give these poor "enemy combatants"--otherwise known as our "neighbor"--good ol' fashioned swirlies. I wonder if we could just give these poor “enemy combatants”–otherwise known as our “neighbor”–good ol’ fashioned swirlies.

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