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Last updated: April 19, 2019

To torture or not to TortureHow do we know that this will work and that no other method will work? This is a classic case of game theory’s prisoner’s dilemma.

While I would go for not actually torturing her but convincing the terrorist that the worst thing is happening to his daughter to make him cooperate, if this option is not viable then I will torture the girl. My justification is utilitarianism: torturing the young girl would save lives. The girl’s life means nothing as compared to the millions that would be lost if the nuclear bomb goes off. The girl is a person and has done nothing to receive this kind of torture, but all probable methods should be exhausted just to achieve the goal of saving lives.

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In sum, millions of lives are worth more than a single life.It could be argued that this girl might be a Mahatma Gandhi in the making and probably she might be killed during the torture, or that she is an Einstein in the making but the torture will leave her scarred and demented all her life, but it does not matter at this point, because at this moment all that matters is diffusing the nuclear bomb. At the end of the day we just do what we believe is right, and if it means turning the girl into an object then so be it the same way that terrorists treats casualties as objects than lives. As the adage goes, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. 


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