Telling you what you want to hear

Because they want it to stop

Regardless of whether it's true

Sure. I haven't done enough research, I mean there are expert interrogation people out there who know the ropes

They'd know how often they get confessions and how often they're true

I think it probably depends on the method

"You tell us or we'll make you watch the Death Note Live Action movie"

Physical torture I don't think is very effective from what I remember reading

But I haven't done extensive research on it

"After that, it's a marathon of Steven Universe"

There was a case of a terrorist making up a story about an entire compund where they were training recruits to get the interrogators to stop the torture

Another tricky part is that logically if I was being tortured, I would think that as soon as they verify that I told then the truth, they'd have no need for me anymore and would kill me

Basically what happens is you get so exhausted you'll say anything to get out

You can't think straight

There are techniques to interrogstion that have been shown to be effective

But straight torture isn't one

I suppose if you lie, they would have to investigate to find out whether you lied or not, so inevitably they'd take a break

Which reinforces that lying works

A common one if you arrest two is to lie and say the other one squealed

Making sure they don't actually have any communication in the meantime of course

If you have 2+ people you can always say whoever talks will be spared

And they'll worry that the others talked

If they think the other talked

They'll think they've nothing to lose

They want to be spared though

If they refuse to talk and their buddy does, their buddy is spared while they get shafted

This depends on circumstance, if they think talking might get them killed fir example

Yeah there's a lot of factors

They might still refuse to talk

Mind reading would make this easier

This Notso guy has a strange morality, I'd like to know where it comes from, what's the justificative for it.

I've heard of polygraphs being used not because they work but because the prisoner might think they do

I agree with most of his ideas. There should be right to a trial if you're actually of a crime, presumption of innocence, it would be very difficult to ban a religion even in private so that's probably foolish, a warrant should be obtained in order to search private property, etc.

Does it not work to a certain extent?

Not if you know how to beat them

Same with drugs, Snake.

Drugs?

"it would be very difficult to ban a religion even in private so that's probably foolish"

Drugs are physical objects. You can make it illegal to produce, sell, or use the objects

What matters is taking it away from the culture and normal sphere

It's hard to ban praying to X diety