According to Shue, a weakness of ticking bomb thought experiments is that they implausibly presume we are certain of both the imminence of a terrorist act and the guilt of the torture suspect.

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Shue criticizes ticking bomb scenarios for assuming unrealistic levels of certainty about the timing of the threat and the suspect's guilt, which oversimplifies the ethical dilemmas involved in real-world situations.

According to Shue, a Weakness of Ticking Bomb Thought Experiments