I agree. This is the one situation I can think of where torture would probably be an <i>effective</i> means of obtaining the information you want.<p>And I also agree it&#x27;s important to make this distinction, and for people to define what they mean by &#x27;verify&#x27;. In my mind, the information is verified if the safe unlocks, the bomb is defused etc. The danger, I think, is when people consider &#x27;verified&#x27; to include &#x27;corroborating information obtained through torture&#x27;. This tends to lead you to false conclusions (e.g. half the women in your village are witches, as they all implicated each other when they were tortured).