Ethics of Interrogation

Consider the following scenarios:

• You have a child buried alive with 12 hours to rescue them and the criminal in custody who refuses to divulge the location of the child.
• You have a terrorist in custody who refuses to divulge the location of a radioactive dirty bomb set to go off in New York City with the potential of killing 100K people and is set to go off in 12 hours.

• Can torture ever be ethically justified?
• If torture is justifiable, can it be controlled?
• What limitations should be placed on enhanced interrogation?
• If your child was buried alive or a city with 10K people was about to be destroyed and you had to decide whether to torture a person for information, what would you do?