OT- Is torture ever justified in coercing information from suspects?

[Faux Newbie]

Just to throw this is, but in hindsight, I'm trying to think of a situation where torture was a practice commonly used where the goals weren't alternately terror and information gathering. Certainly Central American comes to mind.

I'm pretty sure that is one of the modern goals of all torture programs. The other being information gathering.

Pretty much any country who has been the top dog in at least the last two centuries has pretty consistently trained their allies to use torture to suppress opposition.

[Syn7]

Whether it's justified or not really depends on your goals and your ethics. For example, if your goal is to terrorize and you are cool with that, then yeah, it can be quite effective.