[the_af]

Do note that historically, in most cases of torture the torturers weren't themselves under threat, and their families weren't either. This hypothetical doesn't happen in practice.

I tend to support the parent commenter's opinion that torturers were never good people to begin with. I can understand murderers, but not torturers, and especially not torturers of people who haven't directly wronged them (e.g. when it's an "interrogation").

Extreme examples such as "but what if your daughter was raped and murdered by your prisoner" tend NOT to be the case of real life scenarios where torture actually happens.