In Response To: b/c a confession by torture, is 50/50 chance lie (Gggall78)
: If someone is torturing you, and you wanted it to stop, I would just make up
: something and many other people would too. No way to tell if what they say
: is true. I guess if everybody the tortured told the same answer or
: something like 50% all gave the same answer then you could possibly start
: believing that the answer is true.
First off, I have absolutely no authority on torture - but I doubt it would be such a prominent method of information gathering if it did not have a pretty high success rate. I believe the idea is to compromise the mind so it doesn't care that it's giving out the information.
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