[lit-ideas] Re: Waterboarding Bodies Mattered
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:57:59 -0230
Quoting Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Eric Yost wrote:
>
> "Then there's the question of how far one would go to prevent ..."
>
> Which segues nicely into the argument in the following:
>
> http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/category/one_time_tags/the_zelikow_memo
>
> To summarize, if torture of terrorists is legally justifiable under
> compelling national security concerns, then so also is the torture of
> U.S. citizens in the U.S. for similar compelling concerns. That is,
> U.S. citizens could legally be grabbed off the street and waterboarded
> over 80 times in order to determine whether they knew anything about
> terrorist groups.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Phil Enns
> Yogyakarta, Indonesia
It would indeed appear to be the case that morality is grounded in rational
consistency and universalization. Shaize!
Walter O.
Universalizable Soldier
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