SOC232H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mens Rea, Reasonable Person, John Yoo
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Its all about analying and its more like a reading jounal: critique analysis, analyse its legitimacy, evidence makes sense, make the paper, different from the aricle. You didn"t choose to wear the burqa-you were forced: cohersion vs choice, historical significance doesn"t come up in this article. It"s a choice: but in france its seen as a symbol of extermeism , decontextualizes, john yoo- torture memo. Looking for spave between geneva convention and torurte. Still sounds like you were complying with the convention and yet still do things like water boarding. Understahding was that torture would work on torture. Fashipned by lawyers to make it sound like an advanced interrogation methods. Giving them the term on detinees- this makes the sound neutral- they are no longer people and its easier to do advanced interoogation: isis and barbarism. The language that the west is using to describe isis barbarism is masking its own barabarism.
