Their ratings must being going down for such a performance.
BTW, there is nothing wrong with getting info from your enemy if it will save lives even if it involves torture. Would you rather a nuke go off in a city and kill millions or one guy to be tortured into spilling the beans? The problem is the government is our enemy, and the only info they want is who might be trying to shut them down.
BTW, there is nothing wrong with getting info from your enemy if it will save lives even if it involves torture.
As a field expedient, it may have uses. I would certainly consider torturing someone I was convinced had participated in kidnapping and selling my daughter, like in the movie.
Of course torture never works; this is why the mob never breaks legs.
(Incidentally, the real rates loan sharks charged 60 years ago were lower than many of today's perfectly legal rates. The breaking of legs may have something to do with this.)
But as soon as the bureaucracy gets involved...
It's interesting how morals vary from place to place and era to era. Traditionally, Mexican police thought nothing of beating prisoners for information, but considered undercover work to be very dishonorable.