The effectiveness or lack thereof of torture is an emprical question. Is there data?
--- Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My own position is that torture is intelligence
> garthering of a fool. It does not take rocket
> science
> to figure out that such information is unreliable,
> not
> only because people would say anything to end pain,
> but also that pain and fear may drastically impede
> recalling information from memory. A smart
> interrogator would try to obtain information by
> voluntary confession - which in most cases can be
> obtained by a combination of deception, bribery and
> cajole, if one knows what one is doing.
>
> I think that those who use or condone torture are
> sadistic fucks who hide beneath rationalizations of
> "intellitgence gathering" to cover up their
> perverted
> pleasures.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
>
>
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