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Yes.
But only to extract informational desperatly needed, when you have very good reason to believe that the victim knows the information.
It cannot be morally used to extract confessions.
The "5 minute ticking bomb story" isn't realistic.
Many people don't even have the slightest clue what torture is. It is a living nightmare. Films and newspapers cannot even comprehend the physchological as well as physical trauma that is experienced in torture.
Many torture victims give up before the process begins, their captors only need to explain what the torturee is going to be put through. The prospect of knowing it is going to happen to you is often all it takes.
5 minutes can be turned into a living hell.
In the ticking bomb scenario, the victim is given two options.
A: Live, the torture stops and he goes to jail.
B: Experience the most painful 5 minutes of his life and then die.
Honestly does anyone here think that if they were tied down and their captor starting melting their left ear with a cigarette lighter, they would still consider holding out for the full 5 minutes, just to die?
But only to extract informational desperatly needed, when you have very good reason to believe that the victim knows the information.
It cannot be morally used to extract confessions.
The "5 minute ticking bomb story" isn't realistic.
Many people don't even have the slightest clue what torture is. It is a living nightmare. Films and newspapers cannot even comprehend the physchological as well as physical trauma that is experienced in torture.
Many torture victims give up before the process begins, their captors only need to explain what the torturee is going to be put through. The prospect of knowing it is going to happen to you is often all it takes.
5 minutes can be turned into a living hell.
In the ticking bomb scenario, the victim is given two options.
A: Live, the torture stops and he goes to jail.
B: Experience the most painful 5 minutes of his life and then die.
Honestly does anyone here think that if they were tied down and their captor starting melting their left ear with a cigarette lighter, they would still consider holding out for the full 5 minutes, just to die?
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