Here's how the system handles ticking time bomb scenarios:
Let's say you think your neighbor has a bomb that's going to kill everyone and you break into his house and shoot him dead.
If it turns out there is a ticking time bomb you either don't get prosecuted, aren't found guilty, or get pardoned.
That doesn't mean it should be legal to break into your neighbor's house and shoot them generally -- if there's no bomb you are looking at a long sentence or execution for murder.
I think it's the same for any crime, I could have left it at breaking and entering. Generally murder is bad, breaking and entering is bad, torture is bad. I don't want the police to be able to torture my family.
If you're going to claim a ticking time bomb scenario is what makes torture ok the same reasoning will make any other crime ok.
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Here's how the system handles ticking time bomb scenarios:
Let's say you think your neighbor has a bomb that's going to kill everyone and you break into his house and shoot him dead.
If it turns out there is a ticking time bomb you either don't get prosecuted, aren't found guilty, or get pardoned.
That doesn't mean it should be legal to break into your neighbor's house and shoot them generally -- if there's no bomb you are looking at a long sentence or execution for murder.
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I think it's the same for any crime, I could have left it at breaking and entering. Generally murder is bad, breaking and entering is bad, torture is bad. I don't want the police to be able to torture my family.
If you're going to claim a ticking time bomb scenario is what makes torture ok the same reasoning will make any other crime ok.