Pop23
Gold Member
I've staked no claim to inventing any of those measures. Merely point out some of the alternatives. Some of which, would most certainly be more effective in this situation.Hopefully, you get the point. That being there is no proven method which works best. So why use torture?Maybe ... a mind-reading machine would be more effectiveSo when you have maybe 12 or 36 hours to interrogate somebody and you TRULY believe there is a WMD targeted for Chicago --- is "maybe" not good enough for you?
Maybe ... begging would be more effective
Maybe ... befriending would be more effective
Maybe ... bribing would be more effective
Maybe ... cajoling would be more effective
Maybe ... drugging would be more effective
Maybe ... reasoning would be more effective
Maybe ... torture would be more effective
Why use torture?
cajoling and reasoning or begging is definitely not gonna work. Your list is a lot shorter than your sarcasm..
Now MAYBE --- threatening their family would work just swell. But you have to SELL that and even that takes time. Or a Hollywood scenario involving dangling them over a pool of sharks. Those are more complicated and take more time and resources.
I can do sarcasm too.. But it's too serious a proposition to screw it up with sarcasm..
There is whole SCIENCE of persuasion. Don't flatter youself assuming you're inventing ANYTHING here. Literally, a PROFESSION. So don't act like you're the 1st one to think about it.
Like flashing lights and sirens all day and all night at the Branch Davidian Compound and playing "These Boots are Made For Walking" and recording of rabbits being eaten alive. CONSTANTLY at torturous volume to deprive them of communication and sleep. Probably a entire DRUG lab somewhere supplying "novelty" products for the "persuasion" industry..
And I’ve pointed out that seasoned interrogators know how effective levels of these are, and can tell how quickly they will work on the individual.
I guess when we pass the point that they will likely work Faun, what? Let the suspect go? After all, until the bomb kills a few million, you got nothing to hold him with, right?