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Coercive techniques..........
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I've left the board, but for legacy purposes I would like to know if this means you now acknowledge torture works- not that its right- simply it works, right?
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In what sense? Torture successfully is used for intimidation, deterrence, revenge, punishment, and sadism, although conservatives who formerly took a pessimistic view of the power of governmental institutions to revise human nature apparently have now concluded that membership in the Republican Party and election to U.S. government office will immunize people from any instinct to anything unpleasant.
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