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To: jttmab who wrote (197152)	8/13/2006 5:17:01 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Who said this about the use of torture? Where I draw the line is when permanent injury is inflicted. It's where I draw the line, because it the legal line that has been drawn with regard to the disciplining of children. If you cause permanent injury to a child while disciplining them, that's called Child Abuse and can be legally prosecuted. But when's the last time you saw a parent prosecuted for slapping their child across the face for being disobedient (assuming they didn't leave a bruise), or for rendering corporal punishment, let alone putting their child in solitary confinement and denied food? And when are people like you going to recognize that captive illegal combatants who's leadership has not agreed to, or signed the GC, receive more favorable treatment than is required for discipling of children?? Seems to me there is a major hypocrisy evident here, considering that such punishment is permissible upon a child guilty of far less terrible violations of social order than is a terrorist who has attempted, or succeeded, to murder someone. Hawk