Sentence examples for useless torture from inspiring English sources

Every day, I was contributing to the useless torture of countless animals, and the rape of the planet, and thus had severed my humanity—I was basically living adrift, and had been harboring years of guilt.

BOB McKENTY In the midst of homework time, one of my boys grumbled about how useless this academic torture was and how he didn't get it and was this even necessary when all he aspired to be was an ice cream vendor.

He says that the idea that the CIA misled the rest of the government, or that its use of torture was useless, is not fair.

The argument is sometimes made that torture is useless — that it is a bad way to gather intelligence, because people under torture lie.

But Jones's presentations that CIA interrogators knew the torture was useless – contradicting years of agency spin – did not attract significant interest from the senators.

Again and again Voltaire returned to his chosen themes: the establishment of religious tolerance, the growth of material prosperity, respect for the rights of man by the abolition of torture and useless punishments.

He later went on to say that information from torture is "useless".

Some know the data gotten from the victim is useless and they know torture is a warning to others, not a device to get correct data.

In any case, he knew torture to be useless as an investigative procedure: people will say anything at all to stop the pain.

Furthermore, extensive experience in counterterrorism by Israel and many European countries show that torture is a useless exercise that rarely produces valid intelligence and almost always produces false information.

This should come as no surprise: psychological and physical torture has long been known to be useless for interrogation.