You know that meme about how any metric used as a target, ceases to be a good metric? That applies to torture: the torturee’s main goal is to end the torture and it’s fairly likely they will provide bad information
I should’ve added - we know torture doesn’t work, but that should be mentioned in the hypothetical. As it stands, I’m tempted to believe torturing the daughter is guaranteed to result in her revealing the information which will save a million lives.
You know that meme about how any metric used as a target, ceases to be a good metric? That applies to torture: the torturee’s main goal is to end the torture and it’s fairly likely they will provide bad information
I should’ve added - we know torture doesn’t work, but that should be mentioned in the hypothetical. As it stands, I’m tempted to believe torturing the daughter is guaranteed to result in her revealing the information which will save a million lives.