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To: LindyBill who wrote (8454)	9/18/2003 12:52:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793782

In a way there is a weird parallel between torture and euthanasia - both practices are illegal, and both should be, yet both get practiced routinely, at least at the margins. Any intelligence officer interrogating someone who knows where a 'ticking bomb' is, is going to use pressure of some sort to get the information. Likewise, it is illegal for doctors to knowingly shorten their patients lives - yet they do so routinely with terminal patients to ease their suffering, knowing that if they get sued by a family member they will be in big trouble. So they need to get at least tacit permission from the patient and family. In a similar way, the intelligence officer gets tacit permission from his community.