According to the US AP-GfK poll released in June 2009, the number of members of the public who support torture has increased significantly compared to 2005 (38%) when the purpose is legitimate, and 52% of Americans agree with the suspicion of terrorists. Torture is used by people to obtain valid information in order to disrupt terrorist operations. It seems that reasonable and illegal good people beat bad people, it seems to have become an unspoken rule supported by public opinion.
The American film "Unbelievable" (2010) sets up an incredible moral dilemma: when torture is not enough for the terrorist to confess and the nuclear bomb is about to explode, an officially authorized interrogation expert prepares to torture two innocent children of the terrorist who are killed To the strong opposition of the female detective, he would rather a nuclear bomb explode than harm innocents.
The children of criminals and the tens of millions of people to be destroyed by the nuclear bomb are both innocent. Can the former be sacrificed in order to save the latter? The film threw this heavy question to the audience, because of the "kindness" of the female detective, the undiscovered nuclear bomb entered the countdown to detonation. The innocent children of terrorists were saved, at the cost of tens of millions of innocent deaths.
Ten million is greater than two, but freedom and justice are by no means simple math problems. Russia's war on terror has been tit-for-tat. In the Beslan hostage incident in 2004, it "taken the relatives of terrorists as hostages", which some lawmakers accused of being "state terrorism".
Evil means often drown out good ends. Unscrupulous efforts to achieve ends are the root cause of many disasters. "Inconceivable" shows that, in principle, going backward means losing the bottom line. The use of terror and counter-terrorism obliterates the boundary between justice and evil, which will inevitably lead to greater and more unpredictable terror.
The most ironic is that the logic of torture on innocents allows the authorities to control the child of the interrogation expert to force him to carry out the "dirty work" to the end. Without bottom lines and principles, there will be no standards of right and wrong and justice. The blood of the innocent cannot open the door to freedom and justice, nor can it nourish love. ("Watching the Movie" in March)
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