(November 22, 2015 at 9:42 pm)Cecelia Wrote:(November 22, 2015 at 9:30 pm)Lek Wrote: I just can't understand why you wouldn't allow torture to save peoples laves, but you would allow killing people to do so. Why is waterboarding worse than killing someone? What other way would you suggest to obtain the information from a hardened terrorist?
Uhh, I said I wouldn't consider it justified to kill someone for information.
But the information is used to prevent terrorist attacks which kill people, including women and children. And the victims of torture still live. I feel that it is important to protect innocent human lives and, if waterboarding someone who has sworn to take innocent lives, could save peoples' lives I think it would be justified. Don't get me wrong. I'm not just for indiscriminately torturing people, but just as killing could be justified for the right reason, so could torture.
