Discussion10 January 14th

Last week, we discussed "Dilemma". The content that a mad man was arrested by police but he had already planted a terrible thing. It is a bomber! Unfortunately, it can kill hundreds of people and we do not have enough time to look for it ourselves. However, the mad man uses his right to keep silent so police can't find it by him. Therefore, police decides to torture the mad man's wife instead of him. The reason why police decides it, they think the mad man would say the truth because he must be important his wife.
Then, we think about this dilemma. What should we do? Do we agree with police's idea or not? In my opinion, of course, we can't lost hundreds of innocent people's lives due to the mad bomber so we need to prevent his bad plan. In fact, if I am one of the victims of the bomber, I can't allow the man absolutely. Nevertheless, it is not good to torture the mad man's wife because she is innocent. Additionally, I think we are not sure that whether he says the bomber's place or not. It is possible that he would break off his wife. If the mad man don't say the truth in spite of police torture the wife, it is no meaning. For these reasons, we should find another way to find the bomber.
One idea is police torture the mad man himself. It is the simple solution. The important point is we must not kill him by the torture but we need do it by he says "You win (=give up)".
Another idea is we exercise a hypnotic to him. It is a peaceful way because nobody sustain an emotional hurt. If the mad man refuse the hypnotic, police can do it by force. Our group member thought it is the best way about this problem so it became our consensus.