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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (160487)4/14/2005 4:45:37 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I'll put the same question to you: You are holding the manager of a suicide bombing terrorist cell. You have information that he has just dispatched the truck bomb which will explode in your city, probably within a couple of hours. He knows where it is going.

How do you question him?

It is tempting, very tempting, to reply to your hypothetical by quoting the first part of your post (You said, "You are using the same method. Jump to the most extreme example you can think of, then declare nobly that you would not use it. This is not argument, it is preening."). Very apt, I'd say.

The truth is--you never get that scenario in real life. Only on TV or in movies. You often don't know if the guy in front of you really is a terrorist, and even if you do, you usually don't know what he/she knows or not. If it really is only a matter of a couple of hours, and the person in front of you really is a dedicated terrorist, the odds are pretty good that they will have a cover story to provide to you so that the bomb can go off before you get there.

What I said to Michael in the previous post stands. Your indignation is unwarranted--you are the one using the "most extreme example" to justify your position, and then pretend that it applies to all cases. Not good.
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