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[pecunium]

For those of you who stumbled in here because ginmar, matociquala, geekchick, patgreene or some other person I know not; who chose to link to me, welcome.

Read the info page for an idea of who I am. Read the rules for some idea of how to take part (and please take part, this is just wanking if no one comments).

I said something in that last post which was meant to tell the regular readers of this thing how strongly I feel about this. I trust most of them saw it, and that it had some (if only subliminal) effect.

I'm an interrogator, for the U.S. Army. I convince people to betray their friends, so my friends can kill their friends. And that's OK with me. I sleep well at night (mostly, but that's not what wakes me up and haunts my dreams).

I hate torture. It doesn't work. I would not mentally; nor morally, able to sit on a jury where torture is the charge. I would be too prone to convict. I'd want to hurt convicted torturers. I am not completely rational on the subject.

If you doubt me, just google my name, and interrogation, or my name and torture.

So when I say this is worse than torture, I mean it's as bad as bad can be.

Torture warps and destroys those who use it. That's bad.

It gets bad information, which leads to bad intel, which leads to bad decisions. That's bad.

Bad decisions leads to the wrong people getting killed. That's bad.

This is worse.

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Torture is still used because weak-minded people think it works, despite evidence and testimony to the contrary, despite what it does to the people and societies which practice it.

They believe in the fantasies of television, and the myth of pain.

TK

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I was afraid you'd say that (or something like it).

Sometimes I wonder how the human race has managed to survive this long. I'd hate to think that deliberate, wilful stupidity is a survival trait for the race, but some days I can't see any other answer.