tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7506249.post111431011089109227..comments2023-11-05T04:43:31.501-05:00Comments on Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog: Yoo and Waldron debate terror and tortureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7506249.post-1114789385804929212005-04-29T10:43:00.000-05:002005-04-29T10:43:00.000-05:00First-time reader, clicked over from the brilliant...First-time reader, clicked over from the brilliant warhistorian.<BR/><BR/>I'm curious about the implications of the "ticking nuclear time bomb" scenario position you've taken, and would like to know what you think.<BR/><BR/>You've said, as I read it, that you would okay torture of someone who knew the location of the bomb.<BR/><BR/>Stipulating to the central problematic presumptions, that the person being tortured knows where the bomb is, and you know that they know, and that they know that you know that they know.<BR/><BR/>Where do you draw the line:<BR/><BR/>Do you torture the guy who knows the location of the guy who knows where the ticking bomb is located?<BR/><BR/>Do you torture ten guys if you know that one of them knows the location of the guy in the preceding scenario?<BR/><BR/>Where does it stop? I'm not saying that making an arbitrary decision is necessarily wrong (drinking age, voting age, age of legal adulthood), just that I'm curious as to where you draw the line, if anywhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com