(November 22, 2015 at 9:30 pm)Lek Wrote:(November 22, 2015 at 9:26 pm)Cecelia Wrote: Then surely you can find another way of obtaining it. Especially since killing someone isn't likely to yield information, just as torturing someone isn't likely to yield information.
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?
Would you throw a man off a bridge to prevent a train crash with massive loss of life (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem)? This is an issue which has been troubling psychologists for a long time. But it seems most people wouldn't kill a third party to save others, even if they would lay down their own lives.
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