On 3 Apr, Steve Lamb wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I find the actions of these terrorists just as abhorrent as you
>> do.
>
> I doubt that since as far as I have seen until just now you have
> done nothing but defend them.
>
Show me one instance where I defended the actions of terrorists.
>> Not to mention that such actions are counterproductive. If
>> someone is tortured into confessing to a crime, it is always suspect.
>
Yes, but that isn't exactly what is going on, is it? What's going
> in is called, if I recall correctly, the short time problem. You know
> something is going to happen, something horrible, and you know that
> the person you have has information that will stop it. Once that
> ...
> So how would you handle the short-time problem? More importantly,
> have you even thought to ask how other nations outside the US handle
> it? Or how about the other side? Or are you just content to pass
> judgment on those who have protected your right to pass judgment on
> them?
>
The "short time problem", or "ticking time-bomb scenario" is of
course the classic argument as a possible case where torture _may_be_
justified, although even this is a matter of opinion. In the strongest
case, where you _know_ something is going to happen and you _know_ that
the suspect in question has direct knowledge of the specifics, you may
have a case. Actual cases where this has occurred are extremely rare
or non-existent. Show me one case where this has happened, since
you state that is what's going on.
-Chris
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