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RE: Torture
June 4, 2009 at 1:41 pm
(June 4, 2009 at 1:18 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: It's the information extraction that I have a problem with. If you torture a person long enough they will tell you anything, whether it is the truth or not, whether they actually know something or not. It is a very inefficient tool for data gathering.
I know I would. Ex-governor Jesse Ventura recently made a great point about waterboarding (of which he has been put under as part of his Navy Seal training):
Quote:If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? ... We only seem to waterboard Muslims. ... Have we waterboarded anyone else?
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Torture

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Torture - by LEDO - May 31, 2009 at 10:30 am
RE: Torture - by Kyuuketsuki - May 31, 2009 at 12:18 pm
RE: Torture - by leo-rcc - May 31, 2009 at 12:49 pm
RE: Torture - by Giff - June 1, 2009 at 8:20 am
RE: Torture - by Kyuuketsuki - June 1, 2009 at 2:51 pm
RE: Torture - by padraic - June 1, 2009 at 7:30 pm
RE: Torture - by lrh9 - June 1, 2009 at 6:57 pm
RE: Torture - by Meatball - June 4, 2009 at 1:14 pm
RE: Torture - by leo-rcc - June 4, 2009 at 1:18 pm
RE: Torture - by Tiberius - June 4, 2009 at 1:41 pm
RE: Torture - by Kyuuketsuki - June 4, 2009 at 3:01 pm
RE: Torture - by Tiberius - June 4, 2009 at 5:09 pm

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