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Originally Posted by sprocket
I can think of plenty of scenarios where torture would be the moral thing to do, perhaps even when the chance of receiving reliable information is minuscule... they might not all be likely, but definitely possible.
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This assumes there aren't better, more effective, more efficient methods of extracting information. There are in any and all circumstances better, more effective, more efficient methods of extracting information, according to the foremost experts on the issue, therefore torture is never the moral thing to do. Unless you assume that you understand torture (or any questioning methods) better than the foremost experts in the world, you must then conclude, as I have, that torture has no place.
That's all moot, because there's no chance, not even a minuscule chance, of extracting
reliable information via torture. You might get information, you may even get information that ends up correct, but only a fool would think it to be reliable. Torture does not yield reliable results.