Re: Simulated Drowning
Posted by maxmccauley on 01-09-2008 in Waterboarding - Torture?While I agree with your point I want to clarify your definition. I cannot take credit for this (I read it on CNN.com, if memory serves me correctly) but saying that waterboarding "simulates" drowning is a bit of a misnomer. Simulating implies that actual drowning does not take place but that the victim will feel a sensation of drowning without actually experiencing it. This is not the case. The victim IS drowning, it is just controlled. A more accurate description of waterboarding would be "controlled drowning."
I don't mean to attack what you are saying Kyle because I agree with you completely, but I read this on CNN and I thought it was convincing. Calling waterboarding "controlled" drowning is much more accurate and will hopefully show people how inhumane this torture really is.
In response to: Simulated Drowning
When it comes right down to it all waterboarding does is simulate drowning. i think this alone merits the title of torture, and I think that everybody should be able to agree on that. It disgusts that there are still people out there that feel that waterboarding is not in fact torture at all, and those people I feel are crazy. The only justifcation that can be given is the need to gain information from suspects and that this is a good way to gain that information, however I feel that the ends don't justify the means, hence not only is waterboarding torture but it along with all other methods of torture are unjustifyed regardless of the rationale behind them.