Original sentence: Harvey Silverglate states that the necessity defense protects police officers in the hypothetical ticking-bomb case, and that "our legal system is perfectly capable of dealing with the exceptional hard case without enshrining the notion that it is okay to torture a fellow human being".These views have been criticized by other civil libertarians
Edited sentence: Harvey Silverglate argues that the necessity defense would already protect police officers in the hypothetical ticking-bomb case, and that "our legal system is perfectly capable of dealing with the exceptional hard case without enshrining the notion that it is okay to torture a fellow human being".These views have been severely criticized by many other civil libertarians