I’d be really curious to see this example, given that it’s an established fact that torture straight up doesn’t work as a means of gathering information.
Torturing someone to scare others into compliance.
To make it realistic: enemy soldiers captured as prisoners of war. In order to keep them from staging a breakout and slaughtering the civilians in the large town you’re defending, you torture the ringleader of the attempt—publically and painfully sending a message.
Historically: Keelhauling for mutineers on sea vessels.
Unconvincing. You haven’t demonstrated that torture will result in the best outcome, even in a hypothetical situation where the participants are already Doing It Badly Wrong.
I’d be really curious to see this example, given that it’s an established fact that torture straight up doesn’t work as a means of gathering information.
Torturing someone to scare others into compliance.
To make it realistic: enemy soldiers captured as prisoners of war. In order to keep them from staging a breakout and slaughtering the civilians in the large town you’re defending, you torture the ringleader of the attempt—publically and painfully sending a message.
Historically: Keelhauling for mutineers on sea vessels.
Unconvincing. You haven’t demonstrated that torture will result in the best outcome, even in a hypothetical situation where the participants are already Doing It Badly Wrong.
He did demonstrate that bgaesop’s reported fact applies in a limited domain, and that torture supposedly has other uses.