re: #367 Obdicut

I honestly think a lot of this is that people are morally repulsed by what has to be done in order to get good intel; to befriend the captives, to co-opt them. I think people would rather just hit them and beat them down and the idea of being friendly to them, even in the service of a greater good, is just morally repellent to them. It’s rather short-sighted.

A friend of mine who is a cop says this is what he has to train all the new cops on. You get a suspect. He killed someone, you’re sure of it. You can scream at him and tell him he’s a fucking scumbag and a loser and you’re going to come down hard on him and, if you want, cuff him around the head when you’re in an areas without cameras. And he probably won’t say anything except to curse at you.

Or you can say admiring things to him, tell him what a hard man he is, brag about the number of people you’ve killed yourself, and befriend him. And that way you’ll get him to actually talk and then can get up and have the evidence you need to put him away.

Exactly. They think that proper interrogation techniques are “soft,” probably “effeminate.” People get to inflate their penis size by blustering about uniformed men doing things to other men that are in restraints.