{"id":1458,"date":"2009-05-17T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2009-05-17T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T15:19:08","slug":"judgement-at-nuremberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1458","title":{"rendered":"Judgement at Nuremberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/15\/AR2009051502916.html\">Kathleen Parker<\/a> cluelessly asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>When did we start punishing lawyers for producing opinions with which we disagree?<\/strong> And where does that road lead?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judges%27_Trial\">Nuremberg<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And that&#39;s not the dumbest part of her argument.&nbsp; This inexplicably moronic assertion (seen by now all over the place, e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1456\">here<\/a>) shows up as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, the same technique is used to train our own military personnel, who do not suffer severe physical pain or prolonged mental harm.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The logic of this claim is completely baffling.&nbsp; If we use the technique known as waterboarding in order to prepare our military personnel for the kinds of torture that the enemy might use against them, then on that account it&#39;s not torture if we use it against the enemy.&nbsp; But if it&#39;s not torture, then we are either tormenting our soldiers for no good reason or we are giving the enemy a pass in virtue of our using it as training. &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Parker cluelessly asks: When did we start punishing lawyers for producing opinions with which we disagree? And where does that road lead? The answer: Nuremberg.&nbsp; And that&#39;s not the dumbest part of her argument.&nbsp; This inexplicably moronic assertion (seen by now all over the place, e.g., here) shows up as well: Moreover, the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1458\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judgement at Nuremberg<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,70,22],"tags":[1962,542,98,1992,543,1968,99,131],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ignoratio-elenchi","category-kathleen-parker","category-slippery-slope","tag-ignoratio-elenchi","tag-jay-bybee","tag-john-yoo","tag-kathleen-parker","tag-nuremberg","tag-slippery-slope","tag-torture","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}