re: #442 Obdicut

No, I’ve said that if we have to talk about torture, then we don’t have the technological capabilities to gather information quickly from people who aren’t in the mood to give up that information.

But the need is there for rapid acquisition of information.

The issue is whether such a need arises in the course of war. Questions of torture arise from the speed needed in acquiring information. It comes from a slight breakdown in the normal course of spying.

But such breakdowns inevitably happen. And you will either save the lives or you won’t. Sometimes it regrettably gets down to a roll of the dice. I think there is a moral obligation to roll the dice.

If you can devise technology that makes such a roll irrelevant, great.