Problem is, you are not in a position to "know" whether we do or don't in fact have a "ticking time-bomb" scenario going on
even if you DO have access to classified intelligence.
FTA:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-d...-queen-torture (h/t Lucille:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...een-of-Torture)
Torture is nothing but a particularly nasty and vicious form of confirmation bias - as evidenced by the fondness of its defenders for "ticking time-bomb" hypotheticals in which the torturers somehow "know" everything
except where the "ticking time-bomb" is (just like those CIA bozos "knew" there were "African-American Muslim terrorists ... already in the United States").
Laurence Vance sums it up perfectly over at LRC ...
Thomas Sowell Defends Torture Yet Again
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/...ure-yet-again/
Laurence M. Vance (19 December 2014)
It is sad to see the brilliant conservative Thomas Sowell
defending torture yet again. He did so
back in 2009 and I criticized him for it then. Now, with the release of the CIA torture report, he is at it again:
If you knew that there was a hidden nuclear time bomb planted somewhere in New York City—set to go off today—and you had a captured terrorist who knew where and when, would you not do anything whatever to make him tell you where and when? Would you pause to look up the definition of “torture”? Would you even care what the definition of “torture” was, when the alternative was seeing millions of innocent people murdered?
Gee, if we
knew there was a bomb and we
knew it was going off today and we captured someone whom we
knew was a terrorist and we
knew that he
knew where the bomb was and we
knew that he
knew when the bomb would go off, why wouldn’t we also know these things?
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