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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (7729)	8/12/2004 3:44:48 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

There's plenty to test to perfect methods [of torture.] I don't see how. You'd be testing ways of getting someone to reveal information they intended to suppress, and anyone knowing that pain is coming is going to give the information up fairly readily. Even if a test subject agreed to see how long they could keep the information they've been provided quiet, their incentive to resist is going to be low, at least as compared to an enemy soldier or, in particular, a terrorist. Alternately - if you test by trying to get some information that isn't known - personal information or affinities, for example: how do you know whether or not those methods were successful, or to what extent? Perhaps they should. Good point. ROFL! I asked a question, I didn't make a proposal. What do you think of the right of the state to take a person's life, from a Libertarian perspective? "The right of the state to take a person's life" in what regard? Sending military personnel off to war? A cop shooting a criminal, in various contexts? The death penalty? U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules applied to various treatments for terminal illnesses and conditions which...if aspirin was a new product...would keep it from ever being approved? LPS5