Reply #22: the issue is not what effect it will have on me.

[noamnety]

The issue is the effect it will have on people who are now in the military or in charge of the military when they are deciding how interrogations will be managed and how prisoners will be treated.

The issue is the effect it will have on the future soldiers and commanders who will be making those decisions, and whether they will be aware that they will be jailed if they are abusive - or if they are aware that there will be no consequences, because the US government, in the end, doesn't give a shit what they do to prisoners.

And the issue is the effect it will have on the prisoners themselves - whether they will be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention or whether they will be victims of torture.

I HOPE nobody here is thinking "how does this affect ME?" This isn't about me.