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Changelog: On Torture

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)11/04/2010 4:07:29 pm PDT

re: #385 researchok


On the other hand, suppose a suspect is caught and boasts he knows of a big attack to come. There might be a case to justify torture to extract verifiable information.

Why? You haven’t in any way shown this?

Why would you think that the information you got from him would be accurate?

Say you tortured him for an hour and he said that the attack would come at dawn and involve car bombs.

Is the information accurate? How do you know?

Say you tell him you think he’s lying and torture him some more.

He changes the story, and says it’ll come at noon and involve a hidden bomb.

Is that true? How do you know?

I’ve read Bruce Anderson. He also fails this question.