Tho I think line between torture and killing is much more stark. You can consent to fight and possibly die. No one consents to be tortured.
@AdamSerwer If no one consents to be tortured then why are so many people training in SERE? You assume consent=guarantee of intl law.
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@emptywheel simulated torture isn't torture -
@AdamSerwer Your frame conflates what is legal & what is reality. Our detention exceeds legal as soon as we interrogate, can't lecture legal -
@emptywheel maybe. My point is that there are obvious moral distinctions between torture and killing someone who is trying to kill you -
@AdamSerwer We agree on that point. But--as cons rightly point out--terrorists don't abide by intl law. Which means arg needs to be stronger -
@emptywheel agree. Reciprocity is not the only, nor highest virtue. -
@AdamSerwer@emptywheel but it makes a great code name for a covert op into Columbia.
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