I haven&#x27;t seen the movie and I don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s depicted in it, but I&#x27;m pretty sure torture can be morally justified in some cases. Consider a real-life example of torture described in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.[1] At a gas station, a woman briefly leaves her car to pay for fuel. In the minute she&#x27;s gone, a man hops in and drives away. Unbeknownst to the car thief, the woman&#x27;s infant is sleeping in the back seat. The thief soon discovers this and ditches the car. Police quickly catch him at a nearby train station. He&#x27;s carrying valuables from the car. There is video of him stealing the car. Despite his denials, there is no question this man is the car thief. It&#x27;s over 100ºF out. The police need to find the car before the baby dies of heat stroke. A police officer describes the incident:<p>&gt; In the police truck on the way to the police station: “Where did you leave the Hyundai?” Denial instead of dissimulation: “It wasn&#x27;t me.” It was—property stolen from the car was found in his pockets. In the detectives&#x27; office: “It&#x27;s been twenty minutes since you took the car—little tin box like that car—It will heat up like an oven under this sun. Another twenty minutes and the child&#x27;s dead or brain damaged. Where did you dump the car?” Again: “It wasn&#x27;t me.”<p>&gt; Appeals to decency, to reason, to self-interest: “It&#x27;s not too late; tell us where you left the car and you will only be charged with Take-and-Use. That&#x27;s just a six month extension of your recognizance.” Threats: “If the child dies I will charge you with Manslaughter!” Sneering, defiant and belligerent; he made no secret of his contempt for the police. Part-way through his umpteenth, “It wasn&#x27;t me”, a questioner clipped him across the ear as if he were a child, an insult calculated to bring the Islander to his feet to fight, there a body-punch elicited a roar of pain, but he fought back until he lapsed into semi-consciousness under a rain of blows. He quite enjoyed handing out a bit of biffo, but now, kneeling on hands and knees in his own urine, in pain he had never known, he finally realised the beating would go on until he told the police where he had abandoned the child and the car.<p>&gt; The police officers&#x27; statements in the prosecution brief made no mention of the beating; the location of the stolen vehicle and the infant inside it was portrayed as having been volunteered by the defendant. The defendant&#x27;s counsel availed himself of this falsehood in his plea in mitigation. When found, the stolen child was dehydrated, too weak to cry; there were ice packs and dehydration in the casualty ward but no long-time prognosis on brain damage.<p>I think the actions of the police are unimpeachable. Had they not tortured the thief, an innocent child would be dead. Now, does that mean I think torture should be legal? Of course not. Do I think the CIA has committed atrocities and violated human rights? Yes! But that doesn&#x27;t mean torture doesn&#x27;t work.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;entries&#x2F;torture&#x2F;#CasStuBea" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;plato.stanford.edu&#x2F;entries&#x2F;torture&#x2F;#CasStuBea</a>