Comment on When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz

deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• nohaybanda@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This isn’t a court of law and nobody is applying a new law to old crimes.

  What we can do is recognise and condemn the inhumanity of what was done then with the moral clarity of today. Better yet, we can use the lessons of the past to recognise and condemn similar injustices happening today.

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s literally in the quote. Now banned, meaning it wasn’t banned at the time.

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    • nohaybanda@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you have difficulty reading? This is a historical recalling of a past event, not the opening statement of a legal case. The only judgement that is passed is a moral one, and those do not have an expirations date. We can and should condemn past wrongs on the basis of historical learning and more advanced ethics. This is the whole basis of progress.

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      • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do I have difficulty? How ironic

        The interrogations done by his men in Oman were more extensive than previously reported and would be considered illegal by today’s standards.

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The holocaust wasnt illegal when it happened either. What a stupid thing to say.

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What? Murdering people was legal in 1940 was it?

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    • crimson_iris@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      According to the Führerprinzip, anything Adolf Hitler ordered was perfectly legal. Here are some of his direct decrees, if you want to ignore the whole final solution thing.

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      • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How about Poland’s laws, where the crimes were committed?

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