Jonathan Moreno has a terrific piece up over at Science Progress about the ethics associated with the prospect of governments using advanced technology to interrogate suspects. It is short, so I recommend that you read the entire piece, but here are my favorite lines.
"There is no national security exception to the rules governing human experiments."
Amen. Or should I say Bravo. Or just, I couldn't agree more.
And then there are his closing sentences.
"Are there circumstances in which relatively benign but invasive techniques may be used for the sake of national security? The cause of public education in these matters could be advanced were the Senate to raise the issue before another generation of revelations cripples intelligence capacity and undermines public trust—with or without oxytocin."