The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.

[John V]

So you think they will always tell the truth under torture, then?

First, that's a false dichotomy. Second, I already said: All it needs is that the tortured person will sometimes tell the truth. Some recovered children are better than none.

... so long as the truth is being told.

You said that "the tortured will say what they think their captor wants to hear in order to make the torture stop." I want to hear the actual location of the child. By your logic, the person being tortured should tell me that.

When the interrogators themselves deprecate the capability of torture to educe information, it probably doesn't work. I'm inclined to accept their professional opinion.

Me too. I haven't had time to review opposing opinion, but if the facts are that torture is ineffective, I see no reason to pursue it.

As opposed to, say, build the things straight in the first place?

Yes, as opposed to that.

You obviously abdicate your faculty of moral judgement in at least one case.

What case is that, and how is it obvious?