Comparing Guantanamo to the various institutions I'm referring to is like comparing Saturday morning's under 6 Rippa Rugby match with The All Blacks vs Australia in the Webb Ellis final.
I don't remember any reports of inmates being vivisected at Guantanamo or being parrilla'd or having bits hacked off with Machetes.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
"No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. "
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Let's not forget that Donald Trump (along with two thirds of the American public) supports the use of torture.
Guantanamo isn't okay - I'm not down with Waterboarding, I'm not down with being held indefinitely without trial.
But as above - compared to other institutions - Guantanamo is Torture light or Diet Torture - and if I had to choose one, it's by far the most humane and preferable.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
There's a key qualifier that you've left off of that statement.
That's a tad dishonest.
Afterall, you've presented it that they support the use of Torture against Anyone - but that's not true, is it?
And whilst I can sympathize with the resentment that has caused people to think this way, There's a quote which I can't remember who said it - but the context was WW2, I believe from an English officer, after seeing someone strike a prisoner:
"Once you touch a Man, you cannot trust anything that he says"
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Except it isn't - The choice I gave you was Armed Conflict vs Genocide - you indicated you liked Armed Conflict less - therefore Genocide was a more preferable option
In this case I'm comparing Guantanamo with other institutions known to have engaged in Torture and saying of those options - Guantanamo is the lease bad.
The choice I gave you was Binary - one or the other
The choice I identified above was on a continuum - same thing, different degrees of severity.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
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