It’s been used for millennia because humans are violent animals. In war that violence is amplified and focused on the enemy, so torturing the other side is a “good way” to release those emotions.
Torture serves basically no purpose whatsoever, the CIA, KGB, FSB, MOSSAD, BOSS, MI6 and so on have studied it thoroughly, and the results are always that torture is a lackluster, unreliable, and poor intelligence gathering method.
Do you have any reading about the KGB finding torture to be a poor method? I’d love to read their findings. I trust the other agencies about as much as a drink from Bill Cosby, but given that they are all intelligence agencies with similar findings, that gives them credence.
It’s been used for millennia because humans are violent animals. In war that violence is amplified and focused on the enemy, so torturing the other side is a “good way” to release those emotions.
Torture serves basically no purpose whatsoever, the CIA, KGB, FSB, MOSSAD, BOSS, MI6 and so on have studied it thoroughly, and the results are always that torture is a lackluster, unreliable, and poor intelligence gathering method.
Do you have any reading about the KGB finding torture to be a poor method? I’d love to read their findings. I trust the other agencies about as much as a drink from Bill Cosby, but given that they are all intelligence agencies with similar findings, that gives them credence.