Would you torture a terrorist to save 1,000 lives?

[#M|A#Wolf]

The scenario or circumstances will ALWAYS be irrelevant, no exceptions should ever be made when it comes to someone's right to due process.

In my opinion circumstances are always relevant. I have my doubts that say your family and friends were kidnapped and placed in a hidden basement somewhere with a timer bomb, and you had the chance to torture the person that did it for information, you would hesitate from doing so because you wouldn't want to defile his civil/human rights. It's just an example but really I think that circumstances are everything in these types of situations. I doubt that most governments would reject the idea of torturing a terrorist for information when it came down to a severe case of national security. Many laws around the world exist to prevent torture but in reality it's happened countless of the times under the radar.