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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
If a killer had left someone you loved strapped to a time bomb, and under police custody there was a black and white question "if he is tortured he will give the location and your loved one will be saved / if he is not your loved one will die" - every one of us would torture him with our bare hands I suspect.
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Perhaps. But what if that killer presented me with a child, and said, "Here... Sexually molest this child while I watch, or I will press the button on this device that will detonate the bomb your wife and your own child are strapped to." Would I molest the child? No way. I would not compromise my principles on this, even it means my wife and my own child will die.
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Now, that scenario may be ridiculous...
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Indeed, that scenario was ridiculous. And so was mine.
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
...but I only use it to state that in moral terms there are very very very few real living human beings who do not believe that in some circumstances it may be necessary to tolerate necessary evil.
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Then again, some people (myself included) believe that torture is among those evils that should
never be committed, no matter
what the circumstances.