Torture towards criminals

You set the time constraint to 24 hours, you are at fault if you fail to meet it. Especially if it's merely going out with a girlfriend for the day. I hope you manage to get back in time to reply.First of all, the notion that withholding information that could save lives is not a crime and therefore is not sufficient reason to force it out of someone displays a complete lack of understanding of the justice system altogether. Information is like an antidote to a pandemic. Imagine if swine flu was like a mass terrorist attack about to happen. It would kill people faster than the swine flu and faster than it. With an antidote to swine flu, microbiologists and other research scientists collaborate, being given full access to any lab rats they need, any resources they need. They will trample on other research projects and force others to give up their resources for that research as well as funding because let's face it saving millions of lives is of the utmost importance the moment we realise we can do it. The terrorist in question has information of an attack that could be happening in one second, one minute, one hour and if it's even as close as 20 minutes the CIA in Middle East could be immediately contacted to assassinate a certain individual and prevent the whole thing happen (for example if that individual is the person responsible for saying 3, 2, 1, attack). Now, a terrorist is not just an average human being who we should care about. They are a person with knowledge of an attack, or maybe simply an organisation, which is potentially going to destroy the world, if not a huge portion of the human population in the world. They probably rape, torture, steal and kill for their own amusement, so torturing the terrorist is relatively not actually that immoral at all. They are a human weapon loaded with what could save million of lives or help destroy it. They are like a safe with the antidote to swine flu in it, that you desperately need to save yourself, your daughter or whoever it is you need it for. The only way to get information out of a brainwashed individual who would lay down their life for an organisation is to make him (or her) feel such unimaginable pain and torment that they reach a stage where they cannot perceive the possibility of not giving all the information they know. Torture is the only way to make someone who sees withholding information as a good idea suddenly see it as the worst possible idea perceivable, thus forcing them to opt for not withholding it. This is essential to be done in a very short and rapid time because for all Mr. Head of CIA knows, that bomb is set to go off in three seconds (and they'd best hope not!).Secondly, you think one person is worth the same as one million people to society and the world? You clearly are delusional, and this is such an obvious fact that the only way to explain and justify it is to actually kill a million people, let you watch the devastation caused, the families torn apart, the economies destroyed and the entire globalised exportation and importation of the regions affected, as well as all the one's involved with them having to reform into a fragment of the brilliance that it was before, Then rewind the tape and then torture one person to save the million and perhaps after I did that for you to see, might gain some perspective.I have countered both your rebuttals and look forward to an exciting round 3.