DOD sez: insurgents have given their consent to be killed [View All]

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From the Abu Ghraib investigation final report:

"Ethical Foundation of Detention and Interrogation

Within our values system, consent is a central moral criterion on evaluating our behavior toward others. Consent is the manifestation of the freedom and dignity of the person and, as such, plays a critical role in moral reasoning. Consent restrains, as well as enables, humans in their treatment of others. Criminals, by not respecting the rights of others, may be said to have consented -- in principle -- to arrest and possible imprisonment. In this construct -- and due to the threat they represent -- insurgents and terrorists "consent" to the possiblity of being captured, detained interrogated, or possibly killed."

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2004/d20040824finalreport.pdf

That's awfully kind of them to help like that...but someone help me: does it mean the Marines who abused the prisoners at Abu Ghraib have given their consent to be killed too?