(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?
Probably because a headshot in the heat of combat is very different than deliberately planning the long agony of someone who as likely as not will lie to you to make you stop.
Not only are you deliberately engaging in sociopathic behavior (unlike killing in combat), your method of choice is as least as likely to fail as it is to succeed.