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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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Information Obtained Through Torture is Not Reliable
Fear Breathes Truth
If you have the option to escape pain or even death, and telling the truth is the way to escape. Then no doubt in anyones mind that they will tell the truth. No matter the depth of the willingness to keep the secret kept, everyone has their limit. In a time of nation crisis or secruity it should be aloud to "make" such persons to talk. You can make someone do something they are unwilling to do by being nice. Its a dog eat dog world. The world is not a harmless pillow fight. We have to make certain measures in order to make the appropiate desicion of the peoples well bieng
- Dying Utopia
January 12, 2009 11:44AM
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