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Torture for gaining information sees the two major problems of
- how to guarantee that no innocents are made subject of it,
- and where to draw a line in the severity of crimes and situations that decides when to accept torture eventually, and when not.
And these are the only real problems I have with it, despite my experiences descriobed above. Because the excuse that torture makes the subject confess anything the interrogators want to hear in order to just make them stopping, ignores that torture depends on the kind of info it produces or hopes to produce: you could effectively use it only if the subject knows that what info it gives can and will be checked for validity within reasonable time - by that the subject knows that it cannot escape by giving false info. There is a difference between verifiable info, and general info. General info gained from torture is object to the argument that torture produces untrustworthy info eventually: you do not know if the subject told the truth, or not.
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Well put, Skybird. I agree and this rings of the argument I've been making for quite some time regarding torture.