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I don't think Mr. Rider will be posting on this thread again so this is addressed to Phenom, rokin 91, FellowCitizen, Beatleworld, and anyone else who thinks torture is acceptable because I am curious about something. One of the problems I have with the death penalty is that there is no way to take it back if you discover that you've made a mistake--and a LOT of them have been made.Similarly, if one sets out to torture a person for whom guilt is seemingly "obvious", but yet they continue to claim innocence despite your best efforts. At what point do you stop torturing them, assume they are telling the truth, and go back to looking for the real guilty party?My guess is that you cannot stop torturing them until they are dead because you and I both know that some people will never give up even under the worst abuse that one human can visit on another--so won't you have to assume that the person you are torturing is one of those people and keep trying until you have torn them to death? If not, what line of reasoning would you use to justify stopping the torture?
I don't think Mr. Rider will be posting on this thread again so this is addressed to Phenom, rokin 91, FellowCitizen, Beatleworld, and anyone else who thinks torture is acceptable because I am curious about something. One of the problems I have with the death penalty is that there is no way to take it back if you discover that you've made a mistake--and a LOT of them have been made.
Similarly, if one sets out to torture a person for whom guilt is seemingly "obvious", but yet they continue to claim innocence despite your best efforts. At what point do you stop torturing them, assume they are telling the truth, and go back to looking for the real guilty party?
My guess is that you cannot stop torturing them until they are dead because you and I both know that some people will never give up even under the worst abuse that one human can visit on another--so won't you have to assume that the person you are torturing is one of those people and keep trying until you have torn them to death? If not, what line of reasoning would you use to justify stopping the torture?
