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You are given a task. "Torture terrorists for intelligence" you are not given high quality terrorists and you get pretty much nothing. It gets shut down, shre
by gscott 9y ago
You are given a task. "Torture terrorists for intelligence" you are not given high quality terrorists and you get pretty much nothing. It gets shut down, shred the evidence. As an employee is this your problem or the problem of the person who gave you this task?
- cwkoss 9y agoBoth. Torture is criminal.
- yusee 9y agoTorturing people deemed to be terrorists is not intelligent, it's a war crime, and it's everybody's problem.
- matt4077 9y agoThis question was probably answered most eloquently in Hannah Arendt’s report on the Eichmann trial, The Banality of Evil. But to summarize: > is this your problem or the problem of the person who gave you this task? Yes
- gumby 9y agoIt's a crime under Geneva Convention to obey an illegal order (unless, I believe, you think you will killed if you don't obey). It's also a crime under the same conventions to give an illegal order. This was the basis of the Nuremberg and Tokyo war trials.