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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6518)5/21/2007 2:00:07 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 10087
 
I think in certain very limited situations I might accept some form of torture. If you have the classic "ticking bomb" situation, and there is good reason to think the information would be obtained on time with torture, and that it won't without torture.

The problem with condoning controlled torture in any situation, is that it easily becomes uncontrolled, both in terms of what is done, and in terms of when torture gets used. If you allow it in "ticking time bomb" situations, then you get a tendency to see more situations as ticking time bombs, and also you probably decrease the normal reluctance to use torture in other situations, and you might get more extreme torture in the rare ticking time bomb situations then you would get otherwise.

Also the necessary and sufficient part would also be in doubt. In the real world its hard to know either that you will get the information with torture or that you won't get it without.
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