RE: The Last Movie You Watched
January 4, 2016 at 5:01 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2016 at 5:05 pm by Excited Penguin.)
I think it could be hypothetically justifiable in some situations, but only as a last resort. I'm sure we can come up with better ways to make someone tell the truth or otherwise retrieve information from them without hurting them, though. I'll list some, off the top of my head. Questioning done by a body language expert could help. Scanning the brain or going the pharmaceutical route as well, although I'm not as sure about those two being so advanced as yet. But if, say, you find yourself in a situation where you're left no choice but to torture someone in order to save numerous lives and you have at least some shred of reason or evidence to believe they have the information you need from them and there's no time to do anything else, then yes. As terrible as doing that to a human being is, multiple others dying because of one person's silence on the matter is far worse. It doesn't even have to be about multiple people though, and they don't even have to die. Even if it's just one innocent person having to suffer more or as much as the presumably guilty one because of the later one's lack of cooperation, then I would approve torture in that case as well, but my demand for evidence would increase accordingly(substantially to say the least). The more people in danger we're talking about, and the higher the degree of the danger, the less evidence I would need to approve of it, but I would still need some, obviously.
This is all hypothetical, though, of course, and am sure doesn't describe what the issues regarding torture currently are.
This is all hypothetical, though, of course, and am sure doesn't describe what the issues regarding torture currently are.