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>>To me torture is something that is done to punish a person. And, I agree, this should not be at all allowed in the civilized society.
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>>But using even very harsh methods as interrogation techniques, when lives of innocent people are at stake, is different. If some crazy person kidnapped your children and puts them in a place where they have a limited supply of air/oxygen and can only survive for a few hours, would you authorize very harsh interrogation (including inducing fear or pain) to find out where the kids are and save them?
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>Is different? Does your government use these techniques with your citizens? For instance on a dangerious serial killer for save children?
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I hope they do. As I said, I have no problem to apply very harsh interrogation techniques when lives of innocent people can be saved. US citizens or any other country.
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