If Jack Bauer uses torture to get information from terrorists and saves the United States from a terrible attack, we are all with him. He is the hero, he knows what to do and we trust him, we want him to do what is necessary to stop them.
That doesn’t work in real life. Jack is just a character in a TV show: what he is allowed to do, can not be done by real Jacks to real terrorists.
Centuries ago an Italian philosopher, Cesare Beccaria, explained that torture is never justifiable. Now we call it a “violation of human rights”, but sadly someone still use it. These guys think that they have to do all is necessary to fight terrorism. They don’t understand that violence can not be fought with violence.
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