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Originally Posted by fatboy
But there is no guarantee you will get the information. The only thing that is certain is that you will be a torturer. To use your own analogy: if the suspect were someone you cared deeply about, would you sanction torture in order to save the 3 unknown?
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If a close friend (or family member) was serving in Iraq, for example, and the enemy (whoever the enemy is this week) grabbed him and beat him into telling where three enemy soldiers were being held, I would be horrified, but I would admit that capture and physical interrogation is one of the risks he accepted when he joined the military.
Of course, this is much easier to say when, in fact, it actually isn't happening to someone I know. I don't know how I would react if it really happened.
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