Is Torture Ever Justified?

Is Torture Ever Justified?

As newspapers and documentary films continue to discuss waterboarding and other controversial treatments of suspected terrorists, the debate over torture remains intense. Some insist that desperate times call for desperate measures, but others are baffled that such methods could exist in a civilized society. Is physical persuasion ever an appropriate means of interrogation?

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Kwiz
You can't read minds

The point is, how do you know who is a terrorist? How do you know who is guilty? Such things are normally established in courts of law. I'm all in favor of punishing the... Read More

- Kwiz | December 8, 2008 8:16AM

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