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If we limit ourselves to those two options, I believe torture is worse. Or can be. There is no end to the horrors when you intentionally keep someone alive to m

• pbhjpbhj 9y ago
  If you have the chance to save the life of a terrorist who is about to detonate a bomb, you should? If that terrorist tells you "my people have set other bombs just like this, your people will die horribly" do you choose to kill them, or torture then to potentially save the many others from death and mutilation? Or do you just say "oh, how naughty" and clean up the blood of the innocent people afterwards. If we refuse to play at the terrorists game of death then their cause wins at the cost of billions of lives. Then they can continue to kill and maim over ever more nuanced positions. In part the problem is that a (the, I suspect) major source of terrorists is adherents of Islam who follow Mohammed's example of murder, and his injunctions in the Koran, and hadith, to violently oppress. As long as that book exists to inspire the actions, and that man is treated as a model for others then we'll continue to have such problems.