 Halving cocycle with rational two-torsion

Suppose an elliptic curve $E/K$ has all four geometric 2-torsion points rational. For $P\in E(K)$ choose $Q\in E(\overline{K})$ with $2Q=P$. The function $c_P(\sigma )=\sigma (Q)-Q$ takes values in $E[2]$ and is a group homomorphism from the absolute Galois group to $E[2]$: its usual cocycle law becomes additivity because the action on $E[2]$ is trivial. Replacing $Q$ by another half, or $P$ by $P+2R$ with $R\in E(K)$, leaves it unchanged. Adding chosen halves proves additivity in $P$. Its kernel in $E(K)/2E(K)$ is zero, since $c_P=0$ precisely when the chosen half is rational. This constructs the injective map directly, without assuming any theorem of two-descent on an elliptic curve or finite generation of the Mordell-Weil group.