[lit-ideas] On being interrogated on the water board: the rationale behind it

In a message dated 4/26/2009 11:17:38 A.M.  Eastern Daylight Time, 
wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
That everybody on the planet  insists that boiling babies is morally
wrong constitutes an empirical claim  having no relevance to the 
justifiability
of the moral rightness of that  claim. Eric asks what Walter (and Jurgen) 
mean by of an "open and  undominated
dialogue."  Habermas's identification of the necessary and  universal 
epistemic
presuppositions/conditions of discourse seems right to  me.


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Well, also the baby will not be able to be part of  the 'dialogue'.

But with water-boarding is different, because who gets  tortured is someone 
who could have joined a Habermasian dialogue.

So,  what's the rationale, on the part of waterboarder?

Cheers,

JL  

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