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The effort spent to cross check large quantities of lies could have been productively spent using non-coercive techniques. Pressure can be applied without beatings, stress positions and high intensity torture. If the terrorist of the ticking bomb intends to die, as our current opposition are so committed, torturing them, even to death just meets their objectives. Tortured people learn to become convincing liars when resisting because anything that stops the pain and suffering will be used again and again, so many confessions of zero intelligence quality are produced this way.

I agree that extreme forms of duress should not be banned in the event that the president or his designated agents, assuming full responsibility, believe that special measures are justified in an attempt to prevent a catastrophe from happening.