re: #790 researchok

The funny thing about torture is that if it never, ever worked, the practice would have been abandoned long ago.

Of course torture works. It’s by far the best way to:

- generate pain and terror
- extract false confessions
- demoralize, degrade, and destroy a human being

…all of which contribute quite nicely to tyrannical regimes who like to keep their citizens in a constant state of fear.