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Old 11-08-2007, 12:30 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45 View Post
Torture will lead to true confessions but that doesn't matter if false confessions are in there as well because then you have to treat every confession with the probability of being false.
How to make torture work. Assume the ten or 100 innocent people cited in the lies are also guilty. Massacre them all. Then the one honest answer is found and eliminated. The other innocents were from inferior races; needed to be eliminated anyway. Torture worked just fine for the Nazis.
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