I'm a "follower" of @SamHarrisOrg and Christopher Hitchens and I loathe the AltRight. As do most of the Harris & Hitchens fans I know. @ContraPoints is over-generalisng here to an almost bigoted extent.https://twitter.com/MeaningLifeTV/status/1002360142753648640 …
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I would say that's a really stupid fucking question because not only do we not know whether it would work (a lot of things make sense with omnipotence) but we know torture does the opposite: yeilds bad information.
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We know the circumstances under which torture works: whenever you can quickly and easily verify the information given. E.g. bank robber demanding a vault combination from a bank manager. Cop demanding child's location from kidnapper. Etc.
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Have some examples of torture "working"? Some case studies would be good, or even a broader study.
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Multiple cases of cops torturing the location of kidnap victims out of paedo kidnappers, most recently just the threat worked in Germany (though too late, the kid was dead by the time the cops got there). Also the famous baby-in-the-car case in the Stanford Encyclopedia.
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Feel free to link just one.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosopher try on Torture. Read it.
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I actually have. Here it is: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/torture/ … Which part did you find compelling?
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The New Zealand baby-in-the-stolen-car example.
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