tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post6180735532113442449..comments2023-09-12T16:52:48.733+09:00Comments on Antisthenes' corollary*:: "American Football"Ἀντισθένηςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-81588686013821773082013-07-11T12:15:53.775+09:002013-07-11T12:15:53.775+09:00I agree with both paragraphs. I'd like to add...I agree with both paragraphs. I'd like to add a thought, which I should add to the post, as I had it in mind when writing: they are fasting because they are enduring inhumane punishment, whether guilty or innocent. America is committing war crimes there, among its multitude of them, and the agents of it, from the grunt forcing the tube in to the president endorsing it, all should hang from gibbets, if America is only going to honour the principles it insisted on at Nuremberg.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-49812184586071334042013-07-11T12:12:23.539+09:002013-07-11T12:12:23.539+09:00This video is like what is said about democracy: &...This video is like what is said about democracy: 'it wouldn't be allowed if it made a difference'. On a more positive note, it may rather be something like how Elvis Costello once introduced his song about Thatcher, 'Tramp the dirt down': such doesn't create change, but stands as a record of what we've endured, so at least history's not only written by the 'winners'.<br />http://youtu.be/K-BZIWSI5UQἈντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-16897641937815859622013-07-11T01:17:19.230+09:002013-07-11T01:17:19.230+09:00Maybe that video during my morning yogurt snack wa...Maybe that video during my morning yogurt snack was not the wisest to watch. But I was curious, as I have gotten older, I think often about the lengths my family went through to keep my grandfather alive while honoring his DNR. Medically he was unable to eat so was fashioned with a feeding tube. Were we keeping him alive for our own sake? Would it have been more humane to let him starve since he could not eat normally? These are thoughts I have about a loved one.<br /><br />My thoughts on people in Guantanamo are roughly the same. Though I don't know the people in Guantanamo, they are still people. That feeding tube business doesn't look right. If someone is choosing to fast (or even starve to death) why torment them with feeding tubes? Though detained, do they also lose their freedom to choose between their life/health/death? As far as I understand it when you are detained it is not supposed to have an added dose of torture, right? Are these people not protected by the Geneva Conventions?thegypsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01019720222734603445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528686231765021097.post-90085148114388554122013-07-11T01:16:54.088+09:002013-07-11T01:16:54.088+09:00Dude's got heart, I'll give him that. We&#...Dude's got heart, I'll give him that. We'll have to wait and see if he made a dent...Will Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07927492067445164618noreply@blogger.com