11-16-2005, 08:09 AM
Ghostiger,Nov 16 2005, 06:36 AM Wrote:But on the other hand sometimes you know the "bad guy" knows the answer. Say you have a terrorist who planted a bomb somewhere and you need the location - chances are you can get it out of him if you have the time.
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Chances are that he sends you to the other corner of the city. This isn't 24. Torture has shown one thing: People will tell anything to stop it or won't tell anything at all and take any abuse. There are enough people who confessed their crimes of being a witch/heretic/dissident to know that the torture approach doesn't yield real information.