In the article The Ticking Time Bomb, Dershowitz tries to justify the use of non-lethal torture in-order to protect destruction. For instance, when a terrorist who has planted bombs is captured and they do not reveal about their terror plots during interrogation; the use of non-lethal torture such as putting a needle under the fingernails is justifiable as it will help to save hundreds of lives. For example, if a dog is suffering from a disease and, there is no way of giving anesthesia to the dog, then we would have to resort to torture such as closing down its mouth forcefully in order to vaccinate or operate the dog. Even though torture looks inhumane, sometimes the use of torture is justifiable such as in the ticking time bomb scene as the
