Comment Re:Two can play your game (Score 1) 555
Why do you think my first point is irrelevant?
Without knowing anything I asked, you have no more proof that torture has had any benefit than I have proof that this cheese sandwich keeps lions away.
Why do you think my first point is irrelevant?
Without knowing anything I asked, you have no more proof that torture has had any benefit than I have proof that this cheese sandwich keeps lions away.
If an entity like wikileaks can find something out, then so can any actual hostile entities (other countries, whatever).
If it's something that really should be secret, then something's been done horribly wrong if it gets to wikileaks or to anyone else. Anything else shouldn't be secret in the first place.
How many unsuccessful ones?
Of the unsuccessful ones, how many were even slightly related to information provided from torture?
How many of those would not have been discovered otherwise?
And what makes you think that information extracted under torture is going to be reliable? The victims will say whatever they hope will make the torturer stop. That might be the truth, it might be fiction.
My apologies; I got lost somewhere.
Of course they wouldn't. Why should they?
Most "Democracies" in the world are at best democratic republics.
Balance on commercial airliners is not going to be significantly affected by an individual's weight - not when the same plane could be carrying a tonne of cargo or absolutely nothing in the same hold without any issues.
Actually, the original parent of this thread used it first...
I've often wondered what would happen if that had instead been "the right to keep and arm bears".
It would make for an interesting world, I'm sure.
I like your creation myth.
And that is sometimes true in reality. How often? I have no idea. But definitely more often than the "never" assumed in all industry-stated losses.
How would giving something away and still having it at the same time be cheating myself?
that's still 10 people who are no longer going to buy the book.
Probably.
On the other hand, particularly if the book is first of a series, they might well go out and buy the book and its sequels.
Hmm, good point. And perhaps it's more likely to stick in your mind because you both looked at it together.
This being a university, I suspect the chance of not mentioning it is fairly high. It's not the weirdest thing to happen.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra