There is a bomb ticking away and you have in your possession a - TopicsExpress



          

There is a bomb ticking away and you have in your possession a terrorist who knows where it is: should you torture him to find out what he knows? For Le Monde, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, a specialist in ethics and the laws of war and professor at Sciences Po in Paris explains why the ticking time bomb scenario never happens, and that even if it did, there are better alternatives to torture, which is a tactic he calls counter-productive. On the screen, a clock counts down. Whether in French Algeria or Bushs America, the purpose of this fiction is always the same: to establish not only that torture would be acceptable, but also that it would be morally required. … Anti-terrorism and information professionals, FBI and CIA interrogators and even the scriptwriters of the TV show 24 recognized in the 2000s that it is a situation that never occurs. … Having only an hour or two, interrogators can use other more effective methods.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 01:51:20 +0000

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