Acknowledging that torture is not an efficient form of interrogation

[u/Character_Growth_397]

Torture is often shown as an effective way of interrogation, with writers forgetting one key detail: People lie. AAMOF, it's likely that they will lie and give you untrue information to not be tortured

The Last of Us - Joel has an interrogation map where he'd make two different people point to something on a map. If they both pointed the same thing it meant the info was true. Very often this wasn't the case

Mass Effect 2 - Garrus points out that torture is not effective because victims will lie to make the torture stop

[u/granitebuckeyes]

Early modern era had witch hunts, the medieval era rarely did.

[u/stripesnstripes → u/granitebuckeyes]

Apparently there was a pretty high burden of proof when you were accusing someone of heresy.

[u/Hankhoff → u/stripesnstripes]

I mean it's called heresy not hearsay.

I'll see myself out