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Originally Posted by Zenturian
I would personally waterboard anyone if it meant I could possibly get information that would prevent an American from being harmed.
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Torture isn't ever the most reliable method of extracting information (according to the experts, which have been cited in non-pub discussion threads time and again), therefore you waterboarding someone wouldn't be you trying your best to save American lives. It'd be you acting, as JJ said above, on emotion instead of logic. Logic dictates you use the method with the highest probability of success. Emotion means you fly off the handle and get people killed.
You're creating a hypothetical situation that can't happen in order to support your position.