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To: LindyBill who wrote (148676)	11/25/2005 3:14:14 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 793790

But if torturing the ticking time bomb suspect is "what you have to do," then why has McCain been going around arguing that such things must never be done? There is a case to be made for keeping certain measures illegal, but winking at their use in appropriate circumstances. Of course it's not a case that can be made publically. It's a method of keeping those measures limited to narrow circumstances by making the actor take a personal risk whenever he uses them. That's essentially what our society does in the case of euthenasia, which is defined as any medical treatment which hastens death for merciful ends. But morphine is routinely administered to dying patients, and it does hasten their death as well as ease it. This is officially illegal but is winked at.

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