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Philosophy PHD, nice! Good on you, bet you love Westworld asking all that stuff about "free will"! I digress, haha.
>"But I’m not asking about what we actually do; I’m asking about what we may or should do, morally, and why. So, do you ever think that torture could be morally permissible? If so, or not, then why? I lean “not,” and it looks like you do too. I’m just curious about the reasons someone with your background might give for this belief, and what you might say against those who find torture occasionally permissible."
Great question! Torture is and never will be morally permissible because torture at is core is prolonged suffering of an human/animal, for no reason other than revenge and power. It is the act of causing callous, aggravated harm to designed to degrade and cause pain to a person who will say anthing to make the pain stop.
Morally/Ethically it is wrong. It causes harm on multiple levels: Mentally damages the torturer, Creates enemies of the Society and harms political capital, Physically and Mentally scars a human and doesn't work. (Great book of modern techniques show that talking is still the number one go to technique, https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Interviewing-Interrogation-Techniques-Third/dp/0123819865)
Ethically compare torture to standard ethics in medical testing. If you test on animals, you still cannot cause undue/unjust pain on them. Even stricter for human testing.
Now with torture morally, if you torture you lose all of the benefits of having the high road. You just deemed that it is okay for humans to suffer for uncredible information. So not only are you hurting someone, your hurting them for lies. That's contradictory to why you want to do torture in the first place if it for information!
Okay, maybe you're cool and decide to do it for false repentance? Thats not morally correct either. You inflicted pain for someone to admit something you wanted to hear: at best it's coercion! At worse, well, you just proved that applying pain gets you answers and okayed it for your boss to use it on you, thus sealing future pain if he chooses too!
Never ever use toture. Ever.
What we may, should and do is conversation. You have tos availible too you at a Sociological and Psychological level to convince/enable a person to give you information you've requested. I can, deceive, coerce, omit what I know, imply I know more, socratic question, diversion, disabling and a whole bunch of other neat things to get you to talk. I build a relationship and outplay you mentally. Hell, most people want to tell you things, little inside secrets, improve their current status. Even in psychology people want to be liked so you know who is in the better status position by who's little movements or gestures emulate who.
Plus there's tells. Maybe they flip their eyes or look quickly.
Modern interrogation is applying asymmetrical knowledge of game theory, psychology, sociology and authority vs their personal pride/hubris and mental faculties.
Why would You morally torture a man, when basic human decency and letting him make mistakes is so much morally right and easier?