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by pavlov 3565 days ago
Sounds great -- and the evidence says it doesn't work.

It's a comforting fantasy that we can round up the bad guys, put them in a box and rough them up in clever ways until they reveal their evil plans. In the real world, building more Guantanamo Bays isn't going to solve any of the problems facing us. The net benefit of torture centers is negative.

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I definitely wasn't advocating for torture. It should be flatly rejected.

To say it produces nothing just isn't true.

>To say it produces nothing just isn't true.

How do you know? Do you actually have any evidence that torture works?

pavlov provided a source above explaining that there is no evidence that torture is effective. Your response seems to just be "well they must just not be doing it right".