Let’s start with a hypothetical person, called George. George is hypothetical. George says “[Waterboarding][] is not torture.”<\/p>\n
[waterboarding]: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Waterboarding<\/p>\n
George is entitled to his opinion, but he’s wrong.<\/p>\n
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.))<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
That was a hypothetical question, but feel free to answer it anyway. Comments validate me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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