re: #571 KingKenrod

the truth is rewarded, disinformation is threated with escalating punishment. The speed of the escalation depends on the particulars of the threat.

And? That doesn’t in the least counteract anything I said. If you act on every piece of information, then you are limited by the time it takes to check it out. What’s to stop the terrorist from simply reeling off a long list of places, every time you return to torture him?

So if you are resorting to illegal torture in a “ticking bomb” scenario, you will either get the truth in time, or you won’t.

Exactly. And you are wasting time by torturing the guy, since it is not in any way a reliable form of extracting information in a rapid fashion.