Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an informant

Re:Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to becom... by striking on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:10PM (#9215669)

That's horrible. I can still understand people having unethical opinions about torture, but making light of an innocent man being tortured? I'm all for "edgy jokes," but this is just vitriolic.

I think this is the worst thing I've read on HN.

(By the way, if you had exposed an email, I would have asked you about this in private. I don't mean to embarrass you in a public forum. Perhaps you weren't thinking.)

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Re:Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to becom... by shpx on Friday March 27, 2015 @12:06AM (#9274697)

It was a cynical remark. I did not intend that reaction, I hold no opinions on torture.

As an aside, what I said was factually accurate (it's in the article - he gave them the information they wanted), yet people think it was wrong for me to say it. I don't think I'll ever understand that.

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Re:Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to becom... by DanBC on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:13PM (#9215687)

> I think this is the worst thing I've read on HN.

Wait what? Do you have "showdead" turned on? Plenty of stuff like this gets posted every week.

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Re:Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to becom... by striking on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:17PM (#9215706)

I do. Some of it is obvious trolling, and some of it is ranty nonsense. But torture of the innocent is where I draw the line. It struck a nerve with me.

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