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Shows why torture + profiling is not only wrong, but stupid!


Torturing people, whether they are terrorists or not is like trying to extinguish a fire with gasoline. If you torture a terrorist, for every other terrorist revealed, many more terrorists are recruited. And by torturing an innocent, you transform him into a terrorist.

Same goes for profiling, while the likelihood that the brother of a terrorist, is a terrorist himself is perhaps one million times higher than that of a random grandmother, you can't treat him like a terrorist, since it still may be only 20%. And 4 out of five times he will be innocent. But if you start treating him like a terrorist, the likelihood of becoming one grows much higher. Kind of like self-fullfiling prophecy.

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