Is it Safe?

Had to have some dental work done today...some very unpleasant drilling and it got me thinking about torture and the scene in Marathon Man when Dustin Hoffman is being asked "is it safe" while being tortured with a dentist drill. I think I can speak for most of mankind when I say..."oh yeah it's safe...it's so motherfucking safe, you wouldn't believe it. It couldn't be any safer if God, Allah and Budda themselves came down and vouched for the safeness of this current situation". The larger point being that most intelligent people understand torture to be punitive in nature and unlikely to yield consistant reliable results. The person being subjected will of course talk...but the pressing need is to stop the action ASAP...and the way to do that is to say whatever is perceived as what the torturer wants to hear. It doesn't matter if there is no impending plot if that won't stop the torture...If a plot will stop it, then a plot it will be. Makes sense, no?