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Torturing someone to get info from them will only get you one thing, bad information. They'll say anything to make it stop. Torturing is immoral, and ineffective, we shouldn't do it, and we have better ways to get good info from people.
Your first line is absolutely positively false and makes no sense. "Torture" both the intense kind, the middle of the road kind, and the kind you see depicted in interrogation rooms in Law and Order and NCIS are, to varying degrees, considered to be average to poor means of getting good information in regards to efficiency, with the amount of pain generally decreasing the efficiency of the information. However to say that the ONLY thing one will get is bad information is patentedly false and if it was true our military would have a LOT to answer for. Why? Because we perform much of this "Torture" on some of our men and women in the armed forces. What exactly are we preparing them to "Withstand" if torture absolutely positively ALWAYS gives bad information. Why should we train them to withstand torture so as to hold out on giving information if its impossible for said information to ever be given because torture doesn't work?