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>>>To me torture is something that is done to punish a person. And, I agree, this should not be at all allowed in the civilized society.
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>>>But using even very harsh methods as interrogation techniques, when lives of innocent people are at stake, is different. If some crazy person kidnapped your children and puts them in a place where they have a limited supply of air/oxygen and can only survive for a few hours, would you authorize very harsh interrogation (including inducing fear or pain) to find out where the kids are and save them?
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>>Is different? Does your government use these techniques with your citizens? For instance on a dangerious serial killer for save children?
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>I hope they do. As I said, I have no problem to apply very harsh interrogation techniques when lives of innocent people can be saved. US citizens or any other country.

Unfortunately, everything I've ever read about torture tells me that torture does not necessarily yield the desired results. A person undergoing torture will say anything to make it stop. And if you're talking about a true terrorist, you'd be more likely to get false information than true by the time anything was going to happen.

On the other hand, holding a person's face in both hands doesn't seem all that tortuous to me. I imagine a person could endure such torture for a very long time without cracking.

I once came very close to telling my dentist where the gold was buried, and I don't even have any.