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Originally posted by Colin@Mar 8 2003, 03:26 AM
It finally comes down to the 1000 person question. Everyone MUST have a point at which they say "yes", Would you torture a person to save 1000 lives? How about 10,000? How about one million? How about millions - all of New York City?
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This reminds me of an 'Outer Limits' I saw where a woman was sent back in time to kill Adolf Hitler as a baby.
She became a 'nanny' in the house so she could get close to the baby and finally kill him. She switched the baby with another baby...got him out of the house...and then jumped off a bridge not only killing Hitler, but also herself in the process.
Turned out the baby she killed wasn't Hitler at all.....the parents didn't realize the babies were switched and ending raising the switched baby as Adolf....and it was HE who became the Adolf Hitler we know today.
Her actions were sincere, however if she hadn't have done what she did, we would never have known the horror of the Nazi's.....
I know it's far fetched...lol....but the principle is similar to what we are discussing.....who knows what affect the actions of 'torturing' these people will have....and who knows what information we might attain....it truly is subjective....