Law-makers breaking the law: torture as a justified interrogation technique?
Torture thus simply confirms
existing expectations and contributes nothing to the truth.
The prohibition of self-incrimination exists mainly because of the belief that the truth
should not come forth from self-incrimination. Force often even has the opposite effect
to finding the truth. Hobbes (v. 1995) said that "what is confessed in such a situation
tends only to relieve the pain of he who is being tortured, not to provide information to
the torturers". The idea of this was that no one can be forced to damage themselves.
Given the fact that everyone will want to avoid pain, it is an irrational thought that
torture can lead to truthful confessions.
Disproportionate judgment
In the process between an accusation and a conviction, it is important to look for facts
that can give grounds to the accusation as well as facts that disprove the accusation. In
science it is no different, when verifying and falsifying a hypothesis. If there is not
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