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#16 — The Dark Side

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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I Think It Should Be Illegal to Cross the Board

I think my intuition is the same as yours, certainly in that case. I got it from mark bowden, thee atlantic writer, who wrote a long article on torture,. He argued basically that he thought it should be illegal to cross the board but our interrogators should know that there are certain cases where it would be ethical to make somebody uncomfortable by whatever means. So you will be ethically and in fact, off the hook, even though you will have broken the law. And that's, i think that's the right policy. It should be illegal across the board because of all the other consequences of having some legal mechanism by which to torture. But none the less, as

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