re: #46 Big Steve

Well, that doesn’t really hold up. Totalitarian dictatorships don’t really care what the truth is. So if they don’t like you, they’ll say you spilled information willingly and execute you. If they don’t, you survive.

However, you have gotten close to something else: If you know that your enemy tortures its prisoners, you’re much less likely to surrender, more likely to fight to the death. And those who torture find few allies amongst those who don’t.