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Sidd Finch
Two questions: Do you think wrapping someone in a sleeping bag and beating him until he dies to be in the grey areas?
How would you have responded if Jessica Lynch had been blindfolded and led naked by a leash through downtown Baghdad? Would you have said "no big deal -- it's like a fraternity prank!" Or would you have decried this as yet another example of Saddam's barbarity?
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First Example:
Clearly Wrong. But the severity of punishment meted out to the perpetrators should depend on whether (1) they were trying to get info from him and went overboard or (2) they were merely a bunch of sadist punks.
Second Example:
Not Nice, but doesn't come close to my definition of torture. It also is humiliation for nothing but its own sake. Like the batman photo.
Then again, they didn't do that - instead they repeatedly raped her - this hypothetical is somewhat disingenuous.
