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When it comes to terrorism, we dont know what kind of data we dont know. We dont know what action we lack information on, and any squeezing of the terrorist lemon can produce lemonade, so why not give it a few twists to find out?
Why not get off our lazy squeemish asses and look under the fucking couch?
Well three points
- You asked how many lives would have been saved- and I pointed out there is no way for any of us to know- your response of course doesn't deal with that.
- Does torture work? Well certainly it does result in the victims of torture telling the torturer stuff- whatever they think that the torturer wants to hear. This is why many experts do not believe torture is valuable- other methods work better.
- What you cannot say is that torture in this instance would have saved a single life- or whether it might even cost more lives because the information provided sent us down the wrong road.
1. I did address your claim that there is no way to know if the target has intel or not. The explanation, again just for you, as that you dont know untill you start, so you interrogate to find out.
2. Torture done right works. The historical record leaves no doubt about it. You are comfortable leaving terrorists with uncovered data simply because you do not think that your loved ones are at risk. but if your child was at risk, I doubt you would be so self-righteous about not using torture.
3. Again, we dont h ave to know it will work, all we have to know is that it MIGHT work and is therefore worth doing.