One third support 'some torture'

[Cyberus]

At first I was shocked by this article, because I am wholeheartedly against this, or any form of physical harm of others. But then it became more of an informative article of how attitudes differ from country to country...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/6063386.stm



Cue predictable bickering involving usual suspects?

[iamaboringperson]

I support some tourture. In a world that is as it is you need some threat to wrong doers.

[jkirk]

i don't since any information gathered by such means is suspect. anyone will say anything to avoid pain, truthful or not. torture also is not limited to the guilty as some countries can use circumstantial evidence as justification to torture, even when based on lies.

[Karlos]

anyone will say anything to avoid pain, truthful or not

Exactly. There's no way to guarentee the validity of any information obtained in this way. So even if you can put aside any moral qualms about willingly inflicting harm on someone in the hope they'll tell you something (and frankly that says a lot more about you than the suspect), the information you obtain isn't likely to be useful anyway.

[Wilse]

iamaboringperson wrote:
I support some tourture.

Congratulations!
:pint:

You win the most predictable response of the thread award. ;-)

iamaboringperson wrote:
I support some tourture. In a world that is as it is you need some threat to wrong doers.

I believe paedo's should be tortued to death.

[Wilse]

nicholas wrote:

iamaboringperson wrote:
I support some tourture. In a world that is as it is you need some threat to wrong doers.

I believe paedo's should be tortued to death.

Only 'paedos'?

[Wilse]

Cyberus wrote:
I am wholeheartedly against this, or any form of physical harm of others.

Same here.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I am in any case extremely against torturing.
Also the torturing of paedos and psychopaths and so is beyond anything acceptable. These people are SICK avant la lettre. You simply do not torture sick people. And if people just are that way you take 'em out of society. So be it.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Wilse wrote:

Cyberus wrote:
I am wholeheartedly against this, or any form of physical harm of others.

Same here.

Yes indeed. Though I am pro forced treatment in extreme cases.

[cecilia]

nicholas wrote:

iamaboringperson wrote:
I support some tourture. In a world that is as it is you need some threat to wrong doers.

I believe paedo's should be tortued to death.

how about politains??

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
I am in any case extremely against torturing.
Also the torturing of paedos and psychopaths and so is beyond anything acceptable. These people are SICK avant la lettre. You simply do not torture sick people. And if people just are that way you take 'em out of society. So be it.

Do you mean "sick"  to equal "ill"?

Since when does a persons sexual preference make them "ill"? Eh Eyso?

Wilse wrote:

nicholas wrote:

iamaboringperson wrote:
I support some tourture. In a world that is as it is you need some threat to wrong doers.

I believe paedo's should be tortued to death.

Only 'paedos'?

And child murderers.

Wilse wrote:

Cyberus wrote:
I am wholeheartedly against this, or any form of physical harm of others.

Same here.

You will change your mind once you have children.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

nicholas wrote:
Since when does a persons sexual preference make them "ill"? Eh Eyso?

When they get so obsessive about it that they gonna abuse people. That's illness. Now we must have a society where someone who has such feelings just can go to the physician or get psychotherapy without fear, so they can live a normal life. For the sake of everyone.