Would you torture a child predator if he had hidden a child somewhere that might die?

Question

If you would why would you not torture a terrorist to find out what his next target will be in order to save lives of innocent women and children ?

Answer 1

According to the Harvard Law professor Alan Dershewitz, Torture to avoid immenent terrorist acts is both legally and morally justifiable.

Answer 2

I would torture a child predator and a terrorist. Saving innocent lives should be the prime directive.

Answer 3

When it comes to child predators I am all for a one strike law ,and that's it , no second chances there is no justification what so ever for anyone harming a child , if the guilty person is mental then hold the family who let him go unsupervised take the fall , as far as the terrorists I am all for using "unconventional tactical interrogation techniques " on terrorists as well . (( had to be politically correct as not to offend the activist who think we can talk to our enemies , they also think we can treat child predators with therapy )) but hey if they had a life they would not rally around each other looking for a purpose in life. I am all for both , and maybe throw in the occasional extreme activist

Answer 4

You don't even need physical torture. I've read that the average person subjected to the "water board" breaks down in less than 2 minutes. There's little physical danger involved, it's psychological hell.

Yes, I'd reserved it for extreme cases like abducted kids and terrorists. I'd also require judicial review in advance to make sure there was reasonable cause for doing it.

Answer 5

I am so glad to see that there are no believers in the Constitution and Bill of Rights left here, or at least that bothered to answer this question.

You see, when you hold that it is okay to violate the rights of one group of people you eliminate the rights of all peoples. Under the law when you apply a rule or exception to a person, and the case law is upheld, it then starts to become the law of the land. And the line that you may have intended to apply only to a specific class of people, evolves and is now applied to all peoples and all crimes.

So eventually we as a society will arrive at the the police being able to stop and torture traffic violator. Or shop lifter.

Even though your intention is to protect the children as you say, the action diminishes the rights of all peoples. I personally am not willing to surrender my rights so that you can attempt to reek vengeance justified or otherwise.

Answer 6

Physiology sometimes works much better than torture ! remember terrorist can be trained in the same way a CIA
agent is in example, ..die before you give up a secret!

Answer 7

Yep no problem at all.
BUT I would need to be convinced beyond a doubt that the person really was the predator or terrorist that you say.

Answer 8

Absolutely. The liberal extremists who argue against this are sick. They would rather see innocent civilians killed than to get the information from terrorists to prevent attacks.

Mindless!

Answer 9

Torture them both!

Only an unrealistic idiot would outlaw torture in war.

Answer 10

I wouldn't call it "torture." But, yes, I would do "it" to both groups mentioned.