"There is a dirty bomb in Los Angeles, and it's bound to go off in mere hours. Conveniently, you happen to have the guy who set it up in custody, and you even somehow know it was him. Now comes the hard part... would you be ready to extract this information out of the culprit by any means necessary in order to save millions?"
Would I? Absolutely.
However, the problem with this scenario is that it's highly fictiotinalized, an old trope called "no third option". The problem is that the odds of this hypothetical situation to take place in what us boring people call the "real world" is extremely slim, well, we could say non-existent.
Yet, in this thread we have several people using different variations of this trope to attempt to justify their opinions, even demanding an answer to such a question from another person who's this far attempted to keep his opinions rooted firmly in reality. No wonder attempts to get such questions answered are promptly ignored.
Time that is running out is a nice way to create tension and move the story forward. However, it rarely is an issue in reality. We can still assume that there is a person who apparently knows something nasty might be ahead in the future. Our options are to extract that intel by either using "enchanced interrogation" or building ones trust. There is a 50-50 chance both methods will yield significant results.
Nobody needs to publicly present their choice. Just take a good deep glance in the nearest mirror and wonder what exactly could be done to make oneself a better man.
Of course, extreme cynics think "every man is a monster". Which pretty effectively clouds the morality in above hypothesis as well. Go figure.
Would I? Absolutely.
However, the problem with this scenario is that it's highly fictiotinalized, an old trope called "no third option". The problem is that the odds of this hypothetical situation to take place in what us boring people call the "real world" is extremely slim, well, we could say non-existent.
Yet, in this thread we have several people using different variations of this trope to attempt to justify their opinions, even demanding an answer to such a question from another person who's this far attempted to keep his opinions rooted firmly in reality. No wonder attempts to get such questions answered are promptly ignored.
Time that is running out is a nice way to create tension and move the story forward. However, it rarely is an issue in reality. We can still assume that there is a person who apparently knows something nasty might be ahead in the future. Our options are to extract that intel by either using "enchanced interrogation" or building ones trust. There is a 50-50 chance both methods will yield significant results.
Nobody needs to publicly present their choice. Just take a good deep glance in the nearest mirror and wonder what exactly could be done to make oneself a better man.
Of course, extreme cynics think "every man is a monster". Which pretty effectively clouds the morality in above hypothesis as well. Go figure.