If your child was kidnapped and the kidnapper was in custody not telling the location of your child would you then approve of waterboarding or would you let your child die cause you want to be better then the kidnapper?
2007-11-09 11:36:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Bill in prior post people have actually used the I'm better then them for denouncing waterboarding.
2007-11-09 11:40:17 · update #1
Strattz, the child could be imprisoned anywhere left to starve.
2007-11-09 11:40:53 · update #2
No more that is not the question, pathetic how hippies cannot stay on task must be all the drugs from the 60's
2007-11-09 11:44:53 · update #3
Cognitiv... it was a yes or no question that you still haven't answered. Would you do ANYTHING in your power to get your child back?
2007-11-09 11:46:45 · update #4
Waterboarding, pulling apart with SUVs, shooting them up with drugs - whatever it takes.
These people get bent out of shape over waterboarding. Good thing they don't know about the things that went on in Nam.
2007-11-09 11:49:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would be desperate to find out where my child is and would resort to anything, even cutting off people's body parts, to find out.
Fortunately I live in a country of laws and people who's reason isn't impaired by my passion would intervene and keep me from perpetrating an atrocity to prevent one.
Sometimes we have to think of our society as a whole before ourselves. For this society to survive in any meaningful way, we cannot sink to the level of our enemies.
And yes I am willing to risk death in a terrorist attack or lose my family in one to keep some Americans from corrupting everything that is good about America.
2007-11-09 19:57:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think waterboarding would make the kidnapper confess? More than likely you would end up killing the kidnapper before he told you where your kid was being held. then what would you do?
BTW, waterboarding is already illegal in this country and it is illegal for our government to use it according to our government's treaty and signing of the Geneva conventions. Basically what GWB is approving is a criminal act and a war crime against humanity. It's state sponsored torture and state sponsored terrorism. I thought you didn't like terrorism.
2007-11-09 20:06:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
This is a very poor analogy, the kidnapper is already in custody, and would be shortly adding murder to his court case if did not give the information, Suspects who have been arrested are not handed over to an angry mob for good reason.
In the days of the barbarians i'm sure they would have had him/her hung drawn and quartered, but we are supposed to be more civilised now.
Maybe you should try some of the torture mothods you advocate yourself, as this patrotic Republican did
http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&brand=msnbc&tab=m5&rf=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21644133/&fg=&from=00&vid=feb4ba2f-9822-478e-8576-25e20139f35a&playlist=videoByTag:mk:us:vs:0:tag:Source_Countdown:ns:MSNVideo_Top_Cat:ps:10:sd:-1:ind:1:ff:8A
2007-11-09 20:37:01 · answer #4 · answered by . 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No police force on earth gets 'aproval' for interrogation techniques from crime victims. They either do it or they don't, they're the authority.
But, yeah, of course I would. Or, more realistically, if the police couldn't do anything to get the info from him, but could leave me alone with the chained-up prisoner and a scapel, I'd get him to tell me something - even if it was just a desperately made-up location from an innocent man who wanted to remain one.
2007-11-09 20:00:59 · answer #5 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Individually and personally, anyone would torture the kidnapper in this case, which is why if such means were to be employed officially, we would really have no claim to be civilised as a culture, the law being, in principle, impartial.
2007-11-09 19:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Lunerousse 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here is the thing...Any parent is, of course, going to do whatever it takes to get their child back. However, it is up to more rational people who don't have a personal stake in the issue to make the right decisions. Which is NOT to use torture.
2007-11-09 19:56:00 · answer #7 · answered by michael c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bad analogy. The government isn't my parents.
Or, its not supposed to be.
Yours is exactly the logic that breeds a nanny state.
Oh, and there's no missing kid.
Here's an analogy: If you were accused of kidnapping, would you want them to use waterboarding on YOU to force a confession?
2007-11-09 19:44:05 · answer #8 · answered by freedom first 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Desperate situations call for desperate measures. No doubt about it.
What if you didn't know whether the person you had was a kidnapper or not?
2007-11-09 19:51:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Emotions would come into play and I'd assume the parent would do ANYTHING they think would help get their child back.. It's a little more complicated then the question you post.
As for me? Yes, I'd do it myself if I had to...
2007-11-09 19:42:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋