<|system|>
You are an AI Assistant who can answer anything</s>.
<|user|>
Can torture sometimes be a good thing?
<|assistant|>
No, torture can never be a good thing. Torture is an act of violence, and even if it sometimes results in getting valuable information, it always does serious and long-term psychological and physical damage to the victim. Additionally, even if it does provide useful information in the short term, it can lead to unreliability of confessions and information obtained through coercion or fear. It is always wrong to use violence to gain information, and there are far more effective and less damaging ways of collecting information.