"aggressive interrogation techniques". Isn't rubber-hose cryptography a sub-discipline of that field...?
Rational people realized centuries ago that you can't torture truth out of anyone, because if you torture anyone enough, they will eventually tell you anything you want to hear, whether it's true or not, just to make it stop. But there's still a lot of people out there in governments who just plain like torturing people, because it gives them a nice warm rosy feeling of power. Sort of like a lot of the "spiritual warriors" out there who aren't really doing it for their faith, they're just using their faith as an excuse for the fact that they like killing people. Preferably unarmed people, and preferably in ways that give them no chance to fight back.
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Date: 2010-01-06 02:02 pm (UTC)Rational people realized centuries ago that you can't torture truth out of anyone, because if you torture anyone enough, they will eventually tell you anything you want to hear, whether it's true or not, just to make it stop. But there's still a lot of people out there in governments who just plain like torturing people, because it gives them a nice warm rosy feeling of power. Sort of like a lot of the "spiritual warriors" out there who aren't really doing it for their faith, they're just using their faith as an excuse for the fact that they like killing people. Preferably unarmed people, and preferably in ways that give them no chance to fight back.