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Originally Posted by marlin
Ofcourse it's wrong, but there is this nuclear bomb, ticking away under youir city. You've found the blueprints. You found the plans. It's going of in 2 hours. The only thing you don't know is where the bomb is. You also found this guy with a copy of the blueprints on him. You ask him gently and a little less gently, he doesn't say anything. You threaten him with whatever you can think of. Still nothing. You have 1000 men searching for any clue. They find nothing. One hour left. Too late to evacuate. What do you do. tic tac tic tac tic tac ............
Still it might be better to keep it illegal instead of having (very strict) laws.
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If you have very strict laws regulating torture, when would it be allowed? When it will save 1 billion lives? 1 million? 1000? 10? 1? When? When you allow it when it saves 100 lives, and you've captured a person who can save 99 lives but won't, what will you do? And what if you're not sure the suspect knows something?
I think torture should always be outlawed. Offcourse when someone has saved hundreds of lives by torturing 1 person the judge who should punish that person should only give him a relatively light punishment... But if you don't ban it completely and allow grey zones the grey zones will only get bigger, and sooner or later you will be torturing 100 people who might know something to save just 1 person. And I think we can all agree we don't want that to happen.