Senators Clash With Nominee About Torture

[Happy Monkey]

Torture provides false confessions. In the cases where they provide true confessions, the torture continues until the torturer is satisfied, which is unlikely to coincide exactly with the amount of actual intelligence the subject has. Therefore, it is likely that even true coerced confessions will be mixed with stuff that the subject thinks the torturer wants to hear.

There's a reason that torture is usually associated with situations where the veracity of the confession is of minimal importance.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Torture provides false confessions.

I haven't read Merc's books yet, but I've found one source that says this isn't always true: turns as the French resistance was partly broken when captured individuals provided detailed directions to their friends under Nazi torture.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I haven't read Merc's books yet, but I've found one source that says this isn't always true: turns as the French resistance was partly broken when captured individuals provided detailed directions to their friends under Nazi torture.

Torture will lead to true confessions but that doesn't matter if false confessions are in there as well because then you have to treat every confession with the probability of being false.

[tw]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Torture will lead to true confessions but that doesn't matter if false confessions are in there as well because then you have to treat every confession with the probability of being false.

How to make torture work. Assume the ten or 100 innocent people cited in the lies are also guilty. Massacre them all. Then the one honest answer is found and eliminated. The other innocents were from inferior races; needed to be eliminated anyway. Torture worked just fine for the Nazis.