[Josy]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..I agree with Nedusa that not authorising the torture wouldn't be the same as being responsible for the deaths of the people because I didn't actually authorise those deaths and am not responsible for any of the situation..that to me would be a bit like someone saying, if you don't do this, then I'll kill your family and maybe asking me to torture and kill someone else..and if I refused and they killed my family, then saying oh you did that/not me..it was your fault, when it wouldn't be my fault at all/the responsibility for all of it would be with the perpetrators/terrorists/murderer etc...

..yeah, I could say that I would do it and torture that person but there will still be no guarantee of an outcome that the people wouldn't be killed anyway because that's one thing that I could absolutely not guarantee in that situation because I don't have foresight, I would be putting my trust in someone who was asking me to kill someone and become what they were/barbaric and evil ...kind of the last people in the world you can trust...

..I think I would have to be true to myself and if people died, then it wouldn't have been me that had killed them or any of the responsibility mine....

You are though..in the scenario that the OP describes..

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Josy

You are though..in the scenario that the OP describes..

..I wouldn't be responsible for the deaths of people though because only the terrorists are responsible for laying the bomb and no one could absolutely guarantee that a torture of someone would prevent it going off and save lives, that would be totally impossible to predict...it would only ever be a possibility...