On 21 Apr 2009, at 20:57, Chris Gehlker wrote: > On Apr 21, 2009, at 7:59 PM, Roger Howard wrote: > >> But the reality is that interrogation has its place; the question is >> about the extent to which it can be useful. > > I think the question has been answered and the answer is that it is > never useful.
Bull, you are both talking about interrogation and torture as if they are one and the same. They are not. Interrogation is necessary and does produce positive results. Torture on the other hand has been scientifically demonstrated to be unreliable. The US Military has very specific interrogation techniques that take time but produce generally reliable results and they do not as a rule rely on stressing the subject but involve introducing positive feedback from the subject by finding points of commonality from which to build empathy. I'm sure there a better more detailed explanations than mine. Dave -- "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." -- C. A. R. "Tony" Hoare _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
