You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.
There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Anyone will say anything under torture.
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
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