IControlThePast
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My friend who was in the Army said that Basic was a piece of cake and he has a harder time mountain biking than he ever did in Basic. Just a bunch of mind games he said, but maybe it's just because he's been through some pretty extreme stuff outside of the Army, like having to give CPR to someone for 45 minutes without assistance until EMS arrived.
I don't understand why people insist on using a bastardization of the Golden Rule for their moral starting point on these Gitmo tortures. It's not "do unto others as they have done unto you." Also you can't claim someone is a Terrorist until they've been convicted of being one or confessed. Feeding the prisoners kosher meals but then performing immoral actions against them doesn't count as moral. Now I'm not raging against the mistreatment of ink and paper, but what I'm hearing here is a pretty poor defense for our actions.
I don't understand why people insist on using a bastardization of the Golden Rule for their moral starting point on these Gitmo tortures. It's not "do unto others as they have done unto you." Also you can't claim someone is a Terrorist until they've been convicted of being one or confessed. Feeding the prisoners kosher meals but then performing immoral actions against them doesn't count as moral. Now I'm not raging against the mistreatment of ink and paper, but what I'm hearing here is a pretty poor defense for our actions.