Torture is despicable, but there is an ongoing debate about whether anything goi...

yardie · on July 8, 2013

> there is an ongoing debate

Is this like the debate on climate change? Where 99.99% of the scientists agree it's man made, yet a few others think it's natural.

> It's not a settled issue like you're making it out to be.

Yeah, I think it's pretty much settled by everyone but the US government.

tptacek · on July 8, 2013

It seems pretty clear that torture did happen at/around GTMO, and that it ceased (modulo force feeding) under Obama.

jayfuerstenberg · on July 9, 2013

I think this is why Mod Def decided to volunteer for this procedure.

He wanted to show us the degree to which it is or isn't torture.