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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
So, in the spirit of this debate, I'll pose the age old question Jay Severin uses all the time. A child is kidnapped and buried in a box. There is one hour supply of air and you have the kidnapper in custody. The kidnapper refuses to tell you where the child is. WHat do you do? I say you do every single thing imaginable to get that kidnapper to talk. So I suppose that means I support torture. Johnny, what would you do?
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Jim,
this raises an interesting debate.
Are you certain the kidnapper is actually the kidnapper?
it is a fine line between getting information from someone who has information and getting it from someone who doesn't have it. I worry this is too slippery of a slope to stand on.
The next question is who gets to 'do it'. If it is my kid, maybe I could, but could you walk into a room and start cutting or beating on a hand-cuffed suspect, no matter what someone told you they might have or did? I don't know if I could.
I'm not naive enough to think that no matter how strictly worded anti-torture laws are or become, that those in the need to do business will still do, and maybe just a very few will actually know about it!
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