re: #403 Obdicut

That’s part of the skill in interrogation, being able to tell if the person is telling the truth. Usually, interrogation is not done cold. Interrogators begin with information that they know to be true. They build from there, to calibrate whether a person is lying or not.

It’s not a science. People make mistakes, and lives are lost. Sometimes they get it right, and lives are saved.

This question is not open and shut. It’s a good bet that research is going on right now regarding MRIs and PET scans, trying to calibrate that data with truth or falsity, and figuring out whether this data can be helpful in interrogation.

All you need to understand about how technology can help with military ethics is to look at the casualty numbers from one afternoon in WWII and the entire casualty numbers from Iraq.

If anything this is a technological problem, not an ethical question.