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How would you justify that?
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Easily. All members of society have an obligation to stop crimes. If a terrorist or collaborator needs some help to fulfill his obligation to society, I don't see any problem with helping him to fulfill that obligation.
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We go after torturous villains and often use torture to do it. Makes little sense to me.
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Of course it makes sense. Putting an innocent person in a prison cell isn't the same as putting a guilty person in a prison cell. One is a crime, the other isn't. If you can't see the difference, you need to spend some time thinking about the social contract.
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It's been shown that if you torture someone long enough, they will say whatever you want them to say or whatever they think you want them to say.
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A skilled interrogator wouldn't put a person in a situation where they would be forced to fabricate information.
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The problem with torture is that it's often very difficult to tell what a person knows, or even if they might know enough to help you, before the torture begins.
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Really? Are you just blowing hot air? Have you any experience with torture? Have you any experience with interrogation? Or are you just mouthing words without any knowledge to back them up?
In specific cases, the interrogator knew that some persons would have specific information and they went after that information, and it has helped us to arrest terrorists. So, yeah, the value of waterboarding has been proven.