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People who get into the habit of torture -- that's what it is, a habit -- eventually no longer torture people to get information. They just start to enjoy what they are doing. It's a thrill to have so much power over another human being.
So I think one has to approach the prohibition of torture from every possible angle, remembering that utility is not the only reason, maybe not even the main reason, people behave the way they do.
The same logic applies to making war. People just do it, and continue doing it, and eventually forget how awful it all seemed to them in the beginning.
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