Not necessarily. You don’t punish people based on their likelihood of being guilty but based on severity of their crime.
If torture is used as tool to gain information instead of being used to punish it’s even more questionable whether the likelihood of being guilty correlates with the severity of the torture. The fact that someone decides to torture to get more information suggests that they have an insuffienct amount of information.
If there a 50% chance that a person has information that can prevent a nuclear explosion, you can argue that it’s ethical to torture to get that information.
After the bomb has exploded and you know for certain who did the crime, there not much need to torture anyone.
An interrigator that tortures is more likely to get false confession that implicate innocents. If he then goes and tortures those innocents, you see that people who torture are more likely to punish innocents than people who don’t.
An interrigator that tortures is more likely to get false confession that implicate innocents. If he then goes and tortures those innocents, you see that people who torture are more likely to punish innocents than people who don’t.
Even the first person who was tortured might be innocent or ignorant.
Not necessarily. You don’t punish people based on their likelihood of being guilty but based on severity of their crime.
If torture is used as tool to gain information instead of being used to punish it’s even more questionable whether the likelihood of being guilty correlates with the severity of the torture. The fact that someone decides to torture to get more information suggests that they have an insuffienct amount of information.
If there a 50% chance that a person has information that can prevent a nuclear explosion, you can argue that it’s ethical to torture to get that information.
After the bomb has exploded and you know for certain who did the crime, there not much need to torture anyone.
An interrigator that tortures is more likely to get false confession that implicate innocents. If he then goes and tortures those innocents, you see that people who torture are more likely to punish innocents than people who don’t.
Even the first person who was tortured might be innocent or ignorant.
Yes, but that’s besides the point I tried to make. Torturing in general produces a dynamic that makes you punish more innocent people.