re: #694 Bagua

I don’t think it is as simple as “making up a new word”. For legal issues we need a frame of reference, the current one includes the fourth Geneva Convention, the ICRC and the Military Commissions Act of 2006. What other legal conventions should we consider? Do we just go with how we feel at the time? We are a society of laws and are dealing with a changing world.

I cannot speak for ausador, but my take on it is that merely wrapping something in a legal framework and labeling someone a word that means “we can treat you worse in such-and-such a way” doesn’t make it right. But you and I have already had (and agreed in!) a conversation about living up to our values, and that seems to be where the debate would go next anyway.