re: Could you torture a terrorist?

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Torture is neither desired, nor necessarily effective in 99.9999% of interrogations because the information gleaned will be of very suspect value without other corroboration. To that end, I do not believe that "rough" interrogation methods constitute torture, either. I'm talking about climate control, sleep deprivation, even drug assisted interrogation - nothing that causes permanent damage to the subject should rightly be considered torture in the modern age.

There is an axiom in human intelligence: "Everybody wants to tell everyone else, everything they know, all the time." All one has to do is facilitate that to break a subject during interrogation. Again, with torture, you're likely to get the answers the subject thinks you want. I certainly don't want that - I want accurate information.

"Torture" is a tool of sadists.

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