NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 February 2013 10:43:59PM 0 points [-]

An interrigator that tortures is more likely to get false confession that implicate innocents. If he then goes and tortures those innocents, you see that people who torture are more likely to punish innocents than people who don't.

Even the first person who was tortured might be innocent or ignorant.

Comment author: ChristianKl 28 February 2013 02:44:49PM 3 points [-]

Yes, but that's besides the point I tried to make. Torturing in general produces a dynamic that makes you punish more innocent people.