>
> The effectiveness or lack thereof of torture is an
> emprical question. Is there data?
Hundreds of years of torture of those accused of being witches and their subsequent confessions.
Torture was obviously extremely effective. The inquisitor usually got their witch. Proof positive that witches exist no doubt.
The various torture churches actually kept pretty good records on this kind of stuff.
>
> --- 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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