Let’s start with a hypothetical person, called George. George is hypothetical. George says “[Waterboarding][] is not torture.”
[waterboarding]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding
George is entitled to his opinion, but he’s wrong.
Let’s create a hypothetical situation for our hypothetical George to be in. Let’s say that George, through some ugly string of coincidences, finds himself captured by some very bad people, *”strapped to a board and tipped back or lowered into a body of water until he believed that drowning was imminent”* ((quote taken from the Wikipedia article linked above. Not that Wikipedia is necessarily the authority on such things, but I don’t think that anyone can argue with that definition.))
When George is eventually released, what do you think that his opinion on waterboarding will be now? Will he still think that it is not torture?
That was a hypothetical question, but feel free to answer it anyway. Comments validate me.