Oh, I don't know, when it's safe and consensual it can be great fun. ;)
Otherwise, not so much. But I still wouldn't hesitate to do it under some circumstances. Eg, a hypothetical scenario if I personally got hold of a kidnapper who had stashed a loved one somewhere. That would definitely get me to haul out the red hot pliers. If the kidnap victim were unknown to me? Hmmm. At that point I would be far more likely to let the cops take over and try to extract the information in a legal manner, even if I wasn't entirely sure how effective they might be. If the victim were a child? I don't honestly know, but I suspect I would lean more towards applying immediate persuasion of the non legal forceful sort.
Make the situation any more nebulous, like "for my country", and I'd be out of there.
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Date: 2008-03-30 03:30 am (UTC)Otherwise, not so much. But I still wouldn't hesitate to do it under some circumstances. Eg, a hypothetical scenario if I personally got hold of a kidnapper who had stashed a loved one somewhere. That would definitely get me to haul out the red hot pliers. If the kidnap victim were unknown to me? Hmmm. At that point I would be far more likely to let the cops take over and try to extract the information in a legal manner, even if I wasn't entirely sure how effective they might be. If the victim were a child? I don't honestly know, but I suspect I would lean more towards applying immediate persuasion of the non legal forceful sort.
Make the situation any more nebulous, like "for my country", and I'd be out of there.