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Originally Posted by D-Roc
Actually you offered no foundation whatsoever - you simply said "You're wrong", which is an indication of a baseless argument. Had I said that in response to one of your posts, I think you'd understand 
Just because you say someone else is wrong, Murgatroyd, it doesn't mean they are - particularly when you're unable to back your POV up with anything else except "You're wrong"  I'm surprised you would conduct yourself in this manner. But, meh.  |
Sorry to dig this up again, but I've been desperate to explain this for days now - I think this is a bit of a crossed wires thing, but yes, it's totally my fault for the way I chose to phrase my initial post: obviously 'you're wrong' was far from clever or helpful and I apologise unreservedly for that. Basically I was thinking in terms of accepted definitions: legally, unless I'm horribly mistaken, and probably philosophically, what Locke did would be recognised as torture, so that's what I meant when I said you'd be 'wrong' if you deemed it less than torture, but patently I should've phrased it like that at the time - I didn't mean to suggest that you didn't have a right to differ from (what I believe to be - please correct me if I'm mistaken) the legal opinion. So yeah. Sorry for my rubbish use of language there.
I'm still really interested, though, in the issue of why Locke didn't accept the (admittedly twisted) 'help' Miles was offering - blackmail it may be, but it's the only solution anyone's suggested other than running and hiding, and I genuinely think this is the time Locke and Ben need to start working together. Though I can understand why neither or them are terribly well suited to doing so at present ....