Mild Torture During Interrogations. That's O.K, Isn't It ?

[SlowwHand]

The evil paiktis has a quote (I don't care if the US supports a country that kills and tortures people - Shi Huangdi, Murderer of Peoples, extraordinaire.)
in his signature that prompts the thread question.

I read an article advocating "mild, non-life-threatening" torture as a viable option during interrogations; mostly those dealing with military questioning.
This "mild torture" would have to be approved and supervised.

I don't know for sure, but that seems to me to be maybe going a little overboard.
I mean, I see the point trying to be made in regard to the end justifying the means, but still...

What do all of you deep thinkers think about that proposition ?

[Bereta_Eder]

Mild torture is not acceptable unless you're like Osama

[Lefty Scaevola]

I am going to type this real slowly so that the average poly poster can understand.


T o t u r e . b a d

[Bereta_Eder]

got it.

[David Floyd]

I don't know for sure, but that seems to me to be maybe going a little overboard.

I'm damn sure that is going overboard.

[Inverse Icarus]

torture is an excellent way to get the answers you want.

[Dauphin]

What kind of torture - being subjected to tv programmes featuring Barney?

[Q Classic]

so what, is .bad some sort of new domain thing?

note to self--visit toture.bad sometime in the near future.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by UberKruX
torture is an excellent way to get the answers you want.

Absolutely. Regardless of whether those answers happen to be true or accurate. Torture them and they'll tell you what you want to hear. Like saying "Yes. I confess. I did it.". Like the Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4 did.

(Hint- they were innocent).

[Stefu]

And after mildly torturing them, they can be mildly executed.

[Pekka]

There's no such thing as mild torture. Torture is torture, and torture is bad.

[Q Classic]

"mild, non-life-threatening"

cutting someone deeply in the foot with a knife and then cauterizing the wound isn't life threatening.

nor is castrating/circumcising them without anesthesia.

flogging them isn't life-threatening. nor is beating them with fists.

having them hold up a 40 kilogram weight for hours is not life threatening.

dislocating certain joints is not life threatening...

burning them with cigarettes and branding them... both not life-threatening...

amputating limbs, not life-threatening...

and to think, all of this is mild compared to things like the iron maiden, no?

[Eli]

Originally posted by Ron Jeremy


Absolutely. Regardless of whether those answers happen to be true or accurate. Torture them and they'll tell you what you want to hear. Like saying "Yes. I confess. I did it.". Like the Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4 did.

(Hint- they were innocent).

Rephrasing the question is enough to understand whether they know what they're talking about or not.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I can name literally dozens of cases where that proved otherwise.

[Dinner]

Sometimes the anti-torture crowd gets way out of hand and starts labeling things as torture which have nothing to do with torture.

For instance the 80's the EU courts throw out the British practice of making IRA terror suspects stand while they are being questioned by police. The lefties said it was "psychological torture" to make suspects stand while the police get to sit.