Posted: Mar 01, 2013 4:19 pm
Matthew Shute wrote:Torture is ineffective and, worse, often counterproductive.
An example report: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012 ... errogation
Furthermore, the state using torture is arguably a much bigger threat to civilisation than the terrorists we're talking about.
I'm not concerned about it being morally justifiable or otherwise. I'm concerned that it is stupid, and it does the work of the terrorists for them.
The article states:
"Officials familiar with the report said it makes a detailed case that subjecting prisoners to “enhanced” interrogation techniques did not help the CIA find Osama bin Laden and often were counterproductive in the broader campaign against al-Qaeda."
Which is not claim about effectivity of torture as a technique to extract informations in general.
The theses that:
"..
and from every dead child a rifle with eyes
and from every crime bullets are born
which will one day find
the bull's eye of your hearts."
is known, however and again, it does not tell whether "enhanced" interrogation techniques are mostly effective or not. It just says .. well what it says.