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Originally Posted by Professor S
1) No one is arguing that other interrogation methods don't work. If they didn't work, they wouldn't be used at all.
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This depends on your definition of working.
-If working means you you can get someone to admit to something thay may or may not be true to help build a case to kill more people..
-If working is sending a message of fear to other countries about being caught by us..
-If working is pissing off your enemies and making an example of people..
Then torture works. And I think that's the reason it survived over time, not because of how reliable the information is. But because it creates this shield of intimidation, and it makes people say anything that you want them to say (given that you've clued them off to what you want them to say).
So if you're saying that the fact that it gives reliable information is why it survived, then I disagree and ask you to show me proof.