[ipaddr]

You would be surprised that for a percent this would not work. Some even like it. Some have a deathwish and want to be a martyr. Some people blow themselves up to further a cause. Also put under heavy stress memories of keys cannot be recalled at times.

It's probably slightly less effective than threatening to kill family members but probably more than threat of jail time.

Either way you require someone alive and with mental awareness. The mind reading tools found in science fiction hasn't been developed yet.

[rangerelf]

It doesn't matter, something will be found that will coerce them into talking. Nobody is an island. Everyone has a breaking point, if it's not rubber hoses, it's socks full of rocks, or it's bottles of mineral water, or any number of methods. Don't think for a second that someone hasn't thought of a better way to get information out of somebody else.

[0xDEAFBEAD]

Yep... read up on interrogation resistance.

[jacquesm]

We're talking about normal people, not psychopaths.

[l33t7332273]

Terrorists are generally highly altruistic, not psychopaths.

It’s a lot easier to blow yourself up(or to spread ideology which encourages it)for a cause that you believe is helping people, in particular _your_ people.

[jacquesm]

The terrorists that blow themselves up and that blow other people up are usually misguided brainwashed angry young men. It's nothing to do with ideology, everything to do with power. Or did you think blowing up schools full of girls is something people genuinely believe helps their people, to give just one example?

Ordinary people just want to be left alone. Old guys wishing for more power will use anything to get it, including sacrificing the younger generations.

[l33t7332273]

> did you think blowing up schools full of girls is something people genuinely believe helps their people

It absolutely is something that they think helps their people, yes.

[jacquesm]

No, it's something that a bunch of old guys with issues told them helps their people.

Beliefs stop when they are no longer about yourself but about how other people should live. Especially when those other people loudly protest that this is how you think they should be living. Killing them is just murder, not the spreading of ideas.

But hey, those human rights are just for decoration anyway.

[l33t7332273]

> it's something that a bunch of old guys with issues told them helps their people

I don’t understand why you said “no” before this; I believe this agreed with what I’m saying.

[mcpackieh]

The old men persuade the would-be suicide bomber that educating women will liberate and liberalize them, and that this is counter to the interests of those who prefer the traditional order of society. Are they even lying?