^^^If your life was at stake because you couldn't get a prisoner (whom you knew had the information to save you) wouldn't talk, and contemporary interrogation methods weren't working, I wonder how long it would take you before you were trying something a little more stringent? Remember; Your LIFE is at stake...it's you or him.

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Lot of good torture would do me in that situation. If i was desperate enough to sink so low, the guy would have probably noticed, and give me wrong info on porpuse, so im dead either way. There is no guarantee that the information gathered under torture is accurate, the guy could have told me a way to get save my ass or he could have sent me into an ambush. I know i would do that if i was in an him or me scenario and i was staring down the wrong end of a gun. If i knew i was dead (or at lest in for some serious pain) eitherway, i would try to make sure that the other guy was just as bad off as me.

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And BTW Moongoose; The cats are obviously completely innocent...where-as the prisoners we're talking about most likely are not...so these boys were totally wrong...apples and oranges.

Ah most likely, but not 100% right. There is always the chance that some, or many of the prisoners will be innocent, and even if we say for the sake of the argument that torturing "bad people" is ok, eventualy an innocent guy will end up in some serious pain and then everything goes bad again.

And what if the cats were bad cats (you know the type, tiping over thrash cans, singin on the fence at night, sharpening claws on your favorite jeans on on your face), do they deserve to be tortured now or is it still wrong (even though the things described are really the cats primal nature)

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LOL@"Bad Cats"...yes, they can be bad sometimes I guess.

And no, there is no guarantee that torture will always work. Many times througout history people have gone to their deaths with their secrets never revealed while being tortured...but I guess you were never going to get any info out of them no matter what interrogation methods were used, correct?

But it seems to me, like it or not, torture, pain and threat of death has made more than one prisoner talk when the chips were down..........it's just the ugly realities of war.

(BTW: I have a cat...I have never had to torture her TOO much to keep her in line, lol )

I like to throw rocks at cats myself, not that im really evil or anything im just terribly allergic to them. I had a nasty reaction once when a friends cat jumped on me, i almost suffocated so im not taking any chances anymore

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And no, there is no guarantee that torture will always work. Many times througout history people have gone to their deaths with their secrets never revealed while being tortured...but I guess you were never going to get any info out of them no matter what interrogation methods were used, correct?

Correct, so its usseles to torture them. And even if you get info you cant be sure it wont harm you more then help you, the prisoner might have said something just so he could get a break, or he could have give the wrong info on porpuse.

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But it seems to me, like it or not, torture, pain and threat of death has made more than one prisoner talk when the chips were down..........it's just the ugly realities of war.

Thats true, however some thing shouldnt be allowed even in war, and in fact they are not. If everything was allowed nobody would ever be prosecuted for war crimes


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If i dont make sense blame my boss at work, we had a small new years party today and there was lots of liquer there so im rather drunk right now

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Originally posted by Trancer-X I'm thinking the latter at this point.

i could say the latter refers to your kind.


Last time I checked, as donnybrasco said, this has happened in every single war. In fact it's been happening for centuries in pretty much any conflict, even as far back as battle of Poiters in the Tours wars or the sea battle of Salamis over 2 thousand years ago where survivors where beaten with sticks or harpooned and some were taken back Greece to take part in tortures to find out Xerxes true strengths.

So, now is this a new occurance? no00o0o. Is this a big deal? Nope. You're fighting an enemy that will not just plain hand over info to you. And last time I checked the military wasn't rounding up muslims by the dozens and sending them off to be tortured for the fun of it, while they do that to contracters who are there to help them and burn their bodies and let them hang in public view. We "torture", rather interrogate the enemy while they inflict excruciating pain and suffer innocent people. Wow, yeah America sure is the bad one here. And, as I've said earlier, if it's coming from Europe it sure as hell must be accurate and true .

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Originally posted by Lepanto Last time I checked, as donnybrasco said, this has happened in every single war. In fact it's been happening for centuries in pretty much any conflict, even as far back as battle of Poiters in the Tours wars or the sea battle of Salamis over 2 thousand years ago where survivors where beaten with sticks or harpooned and some were taken back Greece to take part in tortures to find out Xerxes true strengths.

Ah my bad, I thought that we are a bit better than the people from 2000 years ago, but i guess not that much, but hey if they did it in the past there is nothing wrong in doing it now right. If you will excuse me, there are some pleople i do not like, i need to go to accuse them of withcraft and watch them get burned alive.

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Originally posted by Moongoose Ah my bad, I thought that we are a bit better than the people from 2000 years ago, but i guess not that much, but hey if they did it in the past there is nothing wrong in doing it now right. If you will excuse me, there are some pleople i do not like, i need to go to accuse them of withcraft and watch them get burned alive.

First off, your sarcasm is rather weak especially when you are talking about a civilization that contributed one of the pillars of our modern Western world. They were definatly by no means some barbarians that your post makes them out to be. And second, human nature doesn't really change much, even in the course of 2000 years. And people were tortured in wars even only a few decades ago. What? You're going to claim that we've come pretty far in the last few years as humanity, too? Sorry, dude. Not quiet there...yet.

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^^^Yes, very much agree. Human beings haven't changed hardly at all since the advent of homosapian dominance. I'm guessing the next big change in human behavior will coincide with the next big change in our species...perhaps this is where genetic-engineering could make a difference? If we're not to change in this way, then we'd better get ready for an indefinate period of the same-ole business as usual.

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Originally posted by donnybrasco Human beings haven't changed hardly at all since the advent of homosapian dominance.

Donny, do people say "God bless you" when you fart?

I'm just curious, as you seem to be pretty good at talking out of your ass.

^^^LOOK!! Trancer X is following me in here! It must be a CONSPIRACY!!

HELP! HELP! I'm the Victim of a CONSPIRACY!!! "Trancer X" is code-word for...................for.......................I don't know what 's code word for, but you can obviously see it's code, I mean, who uses an "X" in thier name! He works for THEM I tell yah! FOR THEM!!

Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggggggggggggghhhhh!

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Originally posted by donnybrasco ^^^LOOK!! Trancer X is folling me in here! It must be a CONSPIRACY!! HELP! HELP! I'm the Victim of a CONSPIRACY!!! "Trancer X" is code-word for...................for.......................I don't know what 's code word for, but you can obviously see it's code, I mean, who uses an "X" in thier name! He works for THEM I tell yah! FOR THEM!! Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggggggggggggghhhhh!

Well, I guess if that's funny to you then it must be funny to all of the other imbeciles out there as well. Whatever, like I really even care what some mongoloid thinks about me.

You see, the main difference between you and I is that I base the majority of my posts on information in which I've done (at the very least) a good bit of due diligence. While you, on the other hand, base the majority of your posts on your profound LACK of knowledge (or shall I say, complete ignorance.) That's why I say that you don't even belong here on PDD as you're really just a CORe whore who doesn't even care if he makes informed or educated posts. For the lack of better terms, you're an idiot.

It didn't take any investigating to figure that out.

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Originally posted by Lepanto i could say the latter refers to your kind. Last time I checked, as donnybrasco said, this has happened in every single war.

I'm sure you could. However, you'd just be talking out of your ass in the same way that donny does.

You must really believe that it's good to maintain the status quo. Well, I'm personally very happy to know (for a fact) that our species is constantly evolving, and that mental midgets such as yourself will one day be considered to be the Neanderthals that you really are.