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I posed 3 hypotheticals and only one of you even had the courage to simply say: No, I would not torture regardless of the consequences. Everyone else quibbles about the implausibility of the scenarios. That is disingenuous. Surely, each of you can imagine a situation where you would do something you otherwise wouldn't to protect yourself or people you love. If you are truly interested in considering the question, then do this: Construct such a hypothetical for yourself, where the people you love are in mortal danger, and where some other person knows but won't say where they are. What would you do?
Was I (or was it heru-ur) who had this courage? If not me, let me say now "no."
As for disingenuity, well, you're the king/queen. You've proposed nothing plausible, nothing approximating reality, just "construct such a hypothetical for yourself."
Really.
Enter this world, where life is uncertain and tenuous, and be ethical. Hypothetically, that is.
