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To: Lane3 who wrote (148692)	11/25/2005 12:27:28 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) of 793782

Karren, I think you have it completely backwards. The opposition is because of the problems of codifying the idea of never. The argument is to leave to the judgement and conscience of those who are tasked with the decisions and responsibilities to use discretion. Some may believe it is morally required to allow one to a million or billion innocent die than allow any force be used to prevent that death. It just a matter of trust or refusing to trust or an absolute belief. Does one believe in the principle or not? Then if one does.... And once you've established the principle, to paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, all that's left to haggle about is the price. In the case of torture, that means that the argument is not whether torture is ever permissible, but when--i.e., under what obviously stringent circumstances: how big, how imminent, how preventable the ticking time bomb.

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