Poll: Would you torture a terrorist to save 1,000 lives?
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Would you torture a terrorist to save 1,000 lives?
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(20 Apr 13, 01:00AM)#M|A#Wolf Wrote:
(19 Apr 13, 09:56PM)ElCrema Wrote: 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.

That argument is an appeal to emotion really. One would be motivated by feelings not informed by reason.
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RE: Would you torture a terrorist to save 1,000 lives? - by Money$hot - 19 Apr 13, 09:18PM
RE: Would you torture a terrorist to save 1,000 lives? - by Roflcopter - 20 Apr 13, 02:21AM