PFT: Equate NOT torturing someone with coddling them and you get called on it. MVL: Then please, enlighten me. Instead of this endless circle of insults, why don't you tell me what your alternative would be.
My god. You honestly think NOT torturing someone is the same as "coddling" them. Sick. Especially from someone who calls herself a Christian. Who would Jesus torture, do you think?
You write as though NOT torturing someone has never been tried, as though I'm proposing something completely new. I'm not. In reality, our methods of interrogation in the past did not include a policy of torture, and yet somehow, we managed to prosecute wars successfully.
What it generally involved was establishing some level of rapport and trust with the prisoner. (Yes, I know that kind of spoils it for people who like torture but hey -- are you interested in successfully interrogating someone, or in getting your jollies by hurting them?) This does not mean putting the prisoner up in a hotel and giving him or her massages. It does mean an interrogator negotiating with them often across a table, convincing them that it's in their best interest to tell what they know.
Sorry to spoil things for you, I mean, you being a moral Christian and all who just loves her some torture.
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Date: 24/4/10 21:43 (UTC)MVL: Then please, enlighten me. Instead of this endless circle of insults, why don't you tell me what your alternative would be.
My god. You honestly think NOT torturing someone is the same as "coddling" them. Sick. Especially from someone who calls herself a Christian. Who would Jesus torture, do you think?
You write as though NOT torturing someone has never been tried, as though I'm proposing something completely new. I'm not. In reality, our methods of interrogation in the past did not include a policy of torture, and yet somehow, we managed to prosecute wars successfully.
What it generally involved was establishing some level of rapport and trust with the prisoner. (Yes, I know that kind of spoils it for people who like torture but hey -- are you interested in successfully interrogating someone, or in getting your jollies by hurting them?) This does not mean putting the prisoner up in a hotel and giving him or her massages. It does mean an interrogator negotiating with them often across a table, convincing them that it's in their best interest to tell what they know.
Sorry to spoil things for you, I mean, you being a moral Christian and all who just loves her some torture.