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Would you torture a terrorist if it meant you could get info to stop a bombing? How far would you go? Personally I firmly believe that even if we had to torture the terrorists family to death it would be worth it. War is a messy business, no one like to see how sausage is made. You can not have it for breakfast by petting a cow. Blood must be spilled. Where is your line? If it would save 100 people would you torture the child of a terrorist in front of them to get info? What if it was a Nuke and you would save a million people? IMO if we want to win we have to do what ever it takes. Extraordinary times take extraordinary measures. I know the Hippie liberal will say never the same Dukaus idiot answer that he would not want the death penalty for someone who rapped and murdered his wife. This only leads to more crime and more death. Some times you have to cut off the arm to save the body. Sorry liberal but this is the real world not some kumbya world.
How would you know that you could get info to stop a bombing?
Why would a terrorist tell you, even under torture, truthful information, when they could lie instead? All the terrorist has to do is stall you if the bombing is imminent. If the bombing isn't imminent, then you would have other ways and time to head off this bombing that you know is coming.
And are YOU going to be the one doing the torture?
I love all the thoughtful, well reasoned, qualifications. I also like the 'torture doesn't work', torture can work' idealogical debate, each trotting out former interrogators to support (here come the links we've all seen).
I love all the thoughtful, well reasoned, qualifications. I also like the 'torture doesn't work', torture can work' idealogical debate, each trotting out former interrogators to support (here come the links we've all seen).
Hey, let's behead their children in front of them, if it yields no intel we can always claim the 'monkey see' monkey do' defense and go far towards killing the notion America is somehow 'different'.
It'd bring peace because there'd be no reason to fight them, we'd be just like them.
This is what really kills me. The mentality that says, "These people are animals! So we have to be animals, too!"
People who believe this hate America and what we're supposed to stand for. And then they call themselves "patriots." It's obvious, from what they want to turn this country into, that they don't know the meaning of the word.
Without question. I don't consider these nutjobbers human.
Truth be told, most people on this thread would torture someone to save a loved one from a horrific fate. It's just easy to take the moral high ground on anonymous internet forums.
It's the male brain that has gotten us to this place to begin with.
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