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  • If torture resulted in stopping a bomb exploding and killing 1000's of people would it still be wrong?

    Fucking giant fallacy. You rely on a set of dubious, if not outright false premises.

    Go and read "Ticking Bombast" by Jim Henley:

    Let’s say you’ve caught a suspect and you’re sure he’s a terrorist, and you’re sure there’s a nuclear bomb somewhere in Manhattan, and you’re sure he knows where it is, and you’re sure this particular terrorist has been trained to resist torture just long enough that you could never get the true location of the bomb out of him in time. But you’re also sure this particular terrorist is a pervert! And he tells you that if you’ll rape your own child in front of him, he’ll tell you exactly where the bomb is and how to disarm it. And you’re sure that he will, because your intelligence is that good in exactly that way.

    Do the families of the 9/11 and 7/11 victims hold the same views as you?

    Rachel North does, for one.

    Do you actually know anything about torture and the circumstances in which it's administered?

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