Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour then? A...
Keeping people in rison is very expensive, however- much more expensive that other ways of stopping people committing crimes. If you are willing to...
A better solution was the british one in WWI: own all the cables, so no need to tap them. Just read the messages sent.
Because their existence is acknowledged, not where most of them are or much about exactly what they do. Given the CIA's record, if they keep quiet...
Would a god that said something like that worth worship or belief anyway? I have always wondered why muslims and christians think Abraham [who was...
There's a lot of argument about both the morality and the need for animal experiments, meat eating and when we need to kill animals in general. The...
Doctors don't dose out medicines to cancer to people with unrelated diseases on the off-chance they might work. Unfortunately they do try to do...
You forget, BM, that there are also secret CIA run camps. If this is what the USA does in supposedly civilised detention centres, what do they do...
Interesting thought for the conspiracy theorists among us: are the scientologists and similar oddballs encouraged to pre-empt discussion of important...
Either this isn't right or I'm dead.
So the guards at Abu Ghraib ought to be tortured in their turn? When- and how- do we stop? Many of the people picked up and held prisoner by the...
So only people who are concerned about human rights ought to have human rights?
It seems that that is true of US military prison guards and interrogators, actually. It is also an excellent method of making new enemies where there...
Look up compliment and complement in a dictionary. BF typed one when he meant the other. I made a joke about it. /
Perfectly true. Mating and living together to raise children; marriage, in the sense of a formal arrangement to do that, is entirely cultural.
In many cases there is no evidence whatsoever that the men detained in US prison camps, or the prisons of US allies are terrorists or terrorists'...
They aren't supposed to compliment each other, but they do. It's mutual flattery. They are supposed to complement each other, but they don't, or not...
Did you take his word for it or check? It is astonishing how many people think they function better when they've had a few drinks- not necessarily...
Probably not caught unaware, but caught unaware by the magnitude of what they did: it wasn't unimaginable but it was unprecedented. The CIA are...
However people tend to be unconcerned about such matters when they are drunk, on top of the natural disadvantages. Not at all. they may be sober and...
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