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The thing about torture, and more generally interrogation, is that you're not just asking "what are the secret codes." You should be asking a lot of questions
by LanceH 10y ago
The thing about torture, and more generally interrogation, is that you're not just asking "what are the secret codes." You should be asking a lot of questions that you know the answers to. You also shouldn't be revealing to the subject that you know these answers. These questions are what help you identify when answers change from false to true.
Contrary to the movies, you don't tell them what you know about them so that they'll know when to lie.
- pavlov 10y agoSounds great -- and the evidence says it doesn't work. It's a comforting fantasy that we can round up the bad guys, put them in a box and rough them up in clever ways until they reveal their evil plans. In the real world, building more Guantanamo Bays isn't going to solve any of the problems facing us. The net benefit of torture centers is negative.
- LanceH 10y agoI definitely wasn't advocating for torture. It should be flatly rejected. To say it produces nothing just isn't true.
- aninhumer 10y ago>To say it produces nothing just isn't true. How do you know? Do you actually have any evidence that torture works? pavlov provided a source above explaining that there is no evidence that torture is effective. Your response seems to just be "well they must just not be doing it right".