Comments on: Is force-feeding an international human rights violation? https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/07/is-force-feeding-international-human-rights-violation/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:02:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ben https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/07/is-force-feeding-international-human-rights-violation/comment-page-1/#comment-227706 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 01:12:27 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=40006#comment-227706 Hugo, not just Nocera, but the authorities he cites also simply ignore the problem of starvation. The WMA says, flatly, “forced feeding of hunger strikers is unethical, and is never justified.”

I don’t think I’m reading too deeply to assume that means that hunger strikers should be allowed to die.

Frankly, I can see where radical leftists and Islamists have common ground, especially in their blithe disregard for human life.

]]> By: Hugo S. Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/07/is-force-feeding-international-human-rights-violation/comment-page-1/#comment-227345 Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:11:17 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=40006#comment-227345 On 2013. June 1, I addressed the same question to NYT columnist Joe Nocera (whom I often agree with, but not this time):

Subj: Is starvation acceptable alternative to force-feeding?
To the Editor of the “New York Times”:

Those who wish to outlaw force-feeding of dangerous captive hunger-strikers (Joe Nocera’s column, 2013/0601 Saturday)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/opinion/nocera-is-force-feeding-torture.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0.
need to make clear that allowing suicide by starvation is morally acceptable, an autonomous decision for which the striker is solely responsible.

Is Mr. Nocera ready to push international human-rights opinion in that direction?

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