Originally Posted by
Onamist
People who are tortured feel that the only way to escape the incredible agony they are in is to reveal the information that they have. It is no more free will than if there was drug that forced them to speak the truth.
Except it is totally different?
They cannot kill you during torture (assuming we are talking about the US). They'll give up eventually.
If you're smart enough to realise, your information is always yours. They simply try to work it out of you through temptation. They dont rob your mind of it.
Furthermore, information received during torture is not usable in a court of law iirc, and it is statistically unreliable information.