[lit-ideas] Re: Is torture wrong by definition?

  • From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:41:47 -0700

If you put all the world's torture of the past ten years into a graph, what
do you think it would look like?  Wouldn't that graph look largely Muslim
green?  Of course it would.  Now look at that little sliver of non-green
down there.  That's the combined torture committed by the British and
American forces combined.   Why is it that so many Lit-Idears want to talk
about that tiny sliver and not about the rest of the graph?  

 

Lawrence

 

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On Behalf Of Judith Evans
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Is torture wrong by definition?

 

> Showing everything would EDUCATE people about the

> world. It's not about some moral high horse. It's

> about what happens. It's about showing people what

> human beings actually do. The only way to do it

> without a huge propaganda agenda is to show

> everything.

 

Then do it.  Show the famine/s in Africa.   Show the US what "Europe"

is really like.   Show India.

 

oh but this is all about Muslims, isn't it? and about the aspects of Muslim

life you don't like.

 

Judy Evans, Cardiff

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