25. Waterboarding is still torture, and I do believe that it was always illegal. If it wasn’t, then the Japanese officers who were executed for waterboarding prisoners during WWII might have a beef from beyond the grave.
Semantics aside, what possible reason would we have to strap a prisoner on a board and simulate death by drowning literally every four hours for thirty consecutive days. Do you honestly believe that such a regiment would actually produce legitimate intelligence? Moreover, if the technique was so ineffective that it was necessary to do it every four hours for thirty consecutive days, at what point does such a practice migrate from being an intelligence gathering device to straight up sadism?
Remember, if our society accepts torture as legitimate, then one day the state might use those techniques on people like you.
