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I assume the suicide option is an option for the prospective torturee - not for the agency. If the pill causes pain, that's an unwanted side-effect. It's unlik

I assume the suicide option is an option for the prospective torturee - not for the agency. If the pill causes pain, that's an unwanted side-effect. It's unlikely to be as painful as the actions of your torturer, whose goal is to cause as much pain as possible, and who may also want to stretch it out for weeks. And there's a good chance your torturer will kill you anyway. Sometimes torture is used for punishment or repression, not to obtain information. Arguably that's always the purpose; "information" obtained through torture isn't very reliable.

3pac 4y ago
The psychological pain (weight) of even carrying such a suicide pill/coin as part of your mission pack-out. Perhaps the person has a strong Judeo-Christian belief that God finds suicide and self-harm abhorrent. Or "Dr. Ellie Arroway"-non religious beliefs of the same. Maybe it's a big question mark how those beliefs are tested in the moment of being tortured. Maybe nobody involved likes the option, but it's there because we do not know about that moment, or what happens after we die, but we do know how utterly horrifyingly people can behave in war.