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Originally Posted by Zunaid
Like Sohel and EQ, I too oppose the death penalty under ALL circumstances. However, under certain conditions, I believe Geneva conventions should be ignored.
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Isn't that the same slippery slope Washington took a tumble on after 911? Personally, I wouldn't have any confidence in any singular human to make a call like when human rights can be curtailed for the greater good, because everyone has bias and that will impact decisions made.
Even if the international community got together and reached unanimous or near-unanimous agreement and then ratified a document that states, for example, that in extreme cases (ie. when authorities know
for a fact that a person is a terrorist) torture to gain information to save lives is legal, while the document itself is unbiased, its implementation is inevitably down to singular organizations. Since I subscribe to the maxim that its better to let 1000 guilty persons go free than to punish even a single innocent person, I cannot reconcile with such a view.