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Argument: Torture is justified in the "ticking time-bomb" scenario
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See Wikipedia: Ticking time bomb scenario
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- Alan Dershowitz, Harvard University law professor and one of the fathers of the the ticking time-bomb experiment.
- Richard Posner, a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, wrote in The New Republic, September 2002 - "If torture is the only means of obtaining the information necessary to prevent the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Times Square, torture should be used - and will be used - to obtain the information. ... no one who doubts that this is the case should be in a position of responsibility."[1]
- Joel Surnow, the co-creator and executive producer of '24,' the popular counterterrorism drama on Fox in an interview for a February 19th, 2007 article in The New Yorker, "Whatever It Takes The politics of the man behind '24.'" - "Isn’t it obvious that if there was a nuke in New York City that was about to blow—or any other city in this country—that, even if you were going to go to jail, it would be the right thing to do?"
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