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When do the ends justify the means?

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When do the ends justify the means?
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RE: When do the ends justify the means?
September 14, 2015 at 4:30 am
There's now very little doubt that torture fails. The person subjected to torture is going to tell the torturer ANYthing in order to make the torture stop.

Take the scenario of the abducted child: The sick fuck who took the kid is going to get an even bigger kick out of watching you run round, going to some phony location, while the child slowly starves to death or dies of exposure.

The irony is that people who have information 'worth' eliciting via torture are also the sort of people least likely to tell you anything you seriously need to know as a result of being tortured.

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When do the ends justify the means?

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When do the ends justify the means? - by Losty - September 13, 2015 at 10:28 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Chad32 - September 13, 2015 at 10:59 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Losty - September 13, 2015 at 11:05 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Thumpalumpacus - September 13, 2015 at 11:09 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by vorlon13 - September 13, 2015 at 11:15 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Athene - September 13, 2015 at 11:20 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Thumpalumpacus - September 13, 2015 at 11:31 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Athene - September 13, 2015 at 11:49 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Thumpalumpacus - September 14, 2015 at 12:52 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Athene - September 14, 2015 at 3:13 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Thumpalumpacus - September 14, 2015 at 11:52 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Athene - September 14, 2015 at 12:02 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Athene - September 14, 2015 at 4:11 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Napoléon - September 14, 2015 at 7:28 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Thumpalumpacus - September 14, 2015 at 10:36 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Chad32 - September 14, 2015 at 9:32 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by vorlon13 - September 13, 2015 at 11:23 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Exian - September 14, 2015 at 12:06 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Bob Kelso - September 14, 2015 at 12:32 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Minimalist - September 14, 2015 at 1:07 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Thumpalumpacus - September 14, 2015 at 2:25 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by pocaracas - September 14, 2015 at 2:41 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Ashground - September 14, 2015 at 3:13 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Athene - September 14, 2015 at 3:28 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Bob Kelso - September 14, 2015 at 3:44 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Wyrd of Gawd - September 14, 2015 at 3:17 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Wyrd of Gawd - September 14, 2015 at 3:43 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 14, 2015 at 4:30 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by pocaracas - September 14, 2015 at 4:47 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by pocaracas - September 14, 2015 at 11:13 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by robvalue - September 14, 2015 at 11:28 am
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by brewer - September 14, 2015 at 5:09 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by I_am_not_mafia - September 14, 2015 at 5:13 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by abaris - September 14, 2015 at 6:01 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Losty - September 14, 2015 at 6:41 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by abaris - September 14, 2015 at 7:20 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Athene - September 14, 2015 at 11:32 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Thumpalumpacus - September 14, 2015 at 7:15 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Napoléon - September 14, 2015 at 7:29 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Losty - September 14, 2015 at 7:34 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by abaris - September 14, 2015 at 7:37 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Losty - September 14, 2015 at 7:42 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Thumpalumpacus - September 14, 2015 at 10:47 pm
RE: When do the ends justify the means? - by Athene - September 15, 2015 at 12:41 am

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