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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (67161)	9/18/2005 5:54:45 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Re: "Expressing hatred by desecrating their holy book is barbaric" There is no evidence this happened, as I recall, and it IS always reasonable to make reasonable comparisons. Desecrating someone's revered book doesn't meet the standard of "torture," even if done relentlessly in Gitmo. Hey, I hate the "eye for an eye" philosophy, yet it is the philosophy of our opponents indeed, not us. If we protect ourselves by doing what may help protect us from their philosophy, and what we do is in fact far less than random beheadings, then we are not engaging in "eye for an eye" behaviour at all. This "good acts cannot be compared to bad acts" statement of yours, in which you claim that this is what our schools and places of worship and our families teach, seems rather silly and against reality, from my point of view. The two aren't comparable in the sense that they are so vastly different that there may be no fine delineations to make between them. The two are very comparable in the sense that we CAN delineate stark differences between the two (it's all in your point of view). There is also a stark difference between self defense and offensive beheadings, between ripping up a bible and beheadings, and between keeping prisoners awake and subjecting them to questioning, and beheadings. If desecrating a holy book is all you have in answer to my question as to what sort of torture are we performing in Gitmo (an unconfirmed claim it is, at that), you haven't got much to indicate we are engaging in anything fairly called torture. Dan B.