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Consider the "ticking bomb" scenario,which is used to justify using torture to fight terrorism.Some who are opposed to torture believe that ticking-bomb scenarios are too contrived to be taken seriously;such states of affairs simply don't happen in the real world.A plausible counterargument to this position is that:


A) ticking-bomb situations happen all the time.
B) ticking-bomb situations have often been depicted in movies and TV series.
C) in light of what we know about terrorists' ethnicity,we have good reasons to believe that ticking-bomb situations are possible.
D) in light of what we know about terrorist tactics and aims (and about police cases that resemble ticking-bomb scenarios) ,we have good reasons to believe that ticking-bomb situations are possible.

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