These people not just dishonest people, they're delusional. And that's not said to be mean or as an insult.
I am stating as a fact, that the Ideological Left are truly, incapable of sound reasoning. It is beyond their intellectual means.
They cannot discern the contrast in even the most fundamental of distinctions, such as 'cause and effect'.
And the reason is that they're Relativist.
Now "Relativism", which is the foundation of "Left-think", the cornerstone of all collectivist thought, is the doctrine which holds that knowledge, truth and morality exist only in relation to one's cultural, societal, historical and personal point of view and, as such, none of those things can are ever be the result of soundly reasoned moral absolutes.
As such relativism axiomatically rejects the objectivity which is essential to truth.
And with truth being essential to trust and both being critical to the establishment of a soundly reasoned morality, and with a soundly reasoned morality being essential to Justice... it follows that Relativism can never serve justice.
And as you see through out this board, across innumerable threads on this subject alone, the Left has no means to discern the simple truth that inducing personal discomfort, does not equate to 'torture'.
They simply and subjectively NEED discomfort to APPEAR TO BE TORTURE; for people to accept torture as being equal to discomfort. Because such serves their subjective personal and political needs at the moment.
But let's look at another circumstance, which was very recently discussed at length on this board and around the nation and which the Left celebrated, counting such as a point of "Gay-pride".
GREAT DISCOMFORT was created BY THE LEFT, through their collective abuse of government power to FORCE innocent people to participate in the celebration of Sexual Abnormality; you'll recall the pretend weddings of adherents of such, where they sued innocent people, threatened them with prison and FORCED THEM INTO BANKRUPTCY and out of their businesses and homes for simply CHOOSING to not participate in that which they saw as abhorrent. People lost their freedom, things they had poured their heart and soul into... and the same people who are telling you that it is NEVER OK to cause MASS-MURDERERS TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE... celebrated the heartbreaking abuse of people who had never harmed anyone; people who were merely standing strong on their most deeply held beliefs.
Everything they claim to stand for is a LIE. All of it...
This thread simply shows evidence of that. Wherein a Leftist, KNOWING that the evidence presented in the discussion proved what she was saying was false, ran to the authorities to have them ERASE THE EVIDENCE, instead of simply admitting the obvious and stating that she felt the video's may violate board policy and ask me to remove it. That is what an honorable person would do.
And beyond THAT, she then returns to the thread to CELEBRATE what she had done, seriously BELIEVING that because the evidence was removed, the evidence DOES NOT EXIST!
And THAT folks, is D E L U S I O N.
And as you probably know, delusion is the idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by evidential reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder.
Now, some may feel that this is only one person... so it cannot indict an entire group. Those people would be wrong.
As there are numerous Leftist participating in the thread... and not one of them found the strength of character to stand up and state that people with their hands tied behind their heads, being pushed off three story buildings... REPEATEDLY... and people being beaten with clubs, mob beat-downs, necklacing... which while being too beaucoup for this board, were about as tame as it got for the socialist government of Saddam's Iraq, and to equate THAT with being deprived of sleep and having water poured down your nose to induce the innate panic common to the natural fear of drowning... is not just FALSE: it is LUDICROUSLY FALSE!