Re: Tortured Logic
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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A lawyer is supposed to answer legal questions. Based on seeing yoo interviewed previously I'd bet he distinguished between legality and the moral question. Sent from my iPhone On May 11, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yoo was once asked about the legality of "crushing the testicles >> of a person's child," and he did not rule it out. >> >> Why should he? If torturing a terrorist failed, wouldn't we be justified in >> torturing his wife or his children to get the truth? > > Yes, especially under the "ticking time bomb" scenario everyone likes > to bring up where "thousands" of lives are at stake. > > -- > dadl-ot mailing list > http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot