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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Rambi who wrote (6005)12/2/2005 12:48:09 PM
From: one_less   of 542412
 
Torture is not 'justified' under any circumstances. The current problem is one of complexity. With most basic truths about right and wrong (it is wrong to steal, for example), we have established elaborate justice systems, as society becomes more and more complex. People learn more inticate facilities from which to deceive one another and so we respond with more detail in the legal system to deal with the ever evolving circumstance.

So, now we have the term 'torture' a basic wrong. The complexity of circumstance is becoming more and more defined. Historically if you were able to knock your enemy down and he surrendered to your power, that was the end of it. In modern times we are less certain on whether or not an enemy is truly surrendering and subdued. Simply having him in cuffs may not have stopped his attack. So, is coercive interrogation justified if the prisoner is still in control of a bomb that will fall on your head? If that is a fact then his attack is on going. Even that is not a simple question, however.
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