by Schmuto » Tue 21 Apr 2009, 19:03:19
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Munqi', 'Y')ou catch a terrorist who has hidden a bomb somewhere that will kill 100 people when it goes off. The only way to get to that bomb is to torture him.
What do you do?
1st things first - I am a man of principle. I'm sure you have little or no experience with a man like me. If you did, you wouldn't waste your time with hypotheticals.
Here's the principle: torturing a human being is evil.
So if your hypothetical was one quadrillion babies die if I don't torture . . . whoever . . . then I suggest you get the tiny caskets ready.
That's 1st.
2nd, perhaps you're young, so you can be forgiven for your myopia.
What you don't understand Munqi, is that
you are the terrorist.You don't understand that yet, but you will.
You're already on a government list of radicals.
You personally are responsible for inciting terror with your incessant references to the crack-pot "theory" known as "peak oil." With your words, you are inciting domestic panic, which makes you a domestic terrorist.
Under Bush the 2nd's laws, which Bush the 3rd has continued, you may already have been phone tapped, email tapped, and so on, which will make it very simple for them to get the court order to arrest you at some point for your terrorism.
And when they do arrest you Munqi, they will be sure that you are another Tim McVeigh, concealing a plot to bomb something, somewhere, because you are clearly an anti-government radical.
And when they take you in the back room Munqi, I want you to think of me, because, while you will shortly be pulling a John McCain, who is only against torture because he was, himself, tortured, I will be thinking of you, and I will be restating my principal for you:
Torture is evil, and no good man would do it for any reason.
Your pathetic hypothetical is the same as asking . . .
. . . would you torture an innocent baby to save 1 million people?
Of course not.
I'm Gideon.