You are a colonel in the U.S. Army, responsible for running an Afghanistan prison that houses captured Taliban and al-Qaeda soldiers. A newly captured soldier is found to be in possession of documents that indicate an imminent operation targeting American soldiers. Traditional interrogation of the soldier has not yielded any results, and you are concerned that lives will be lost if the captive soldier cannot be made to reveal what he knows about the imminent attack. Believing that time is running out, you consider authorizing the use of brutality in order to hopefully extract the information before lives are lost. Your dilemma is known as:
A)the principle of double effect.
B)the Dirty Harry problem.
C)"just means."
D)the Jack Bauer solution.

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The Dirty Harry problem refers to a moral and ethical dilemma where one considers using morally questionable methods, such as brutality or torture, to achieve a potentially greater good, such as saving lives. This scenario, where a colonel considers authorizing brutality to extract information to prevent an attack, aligns with the Dirty Harry problem.

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