Heh. I'm Scipio, 'smart and ruthless'.
I found some of the question (particularly those about torture and 'helping the good guys against a bad ruler') very suspect.
Almost as if someone, using the test, also wanted to find out what the support was for the actions of the current US government.
In my case, I'm against torture. Period. I mean, kill prisoners if it endangers the mission - fine. But torture, no way.
The question 'what if the captive know something' is totally ridiculous - you cant know that unless you're a mind reader, in which case you don't need torture.
Torture is just for the sake of breaking someone, or for the sake of the torturer, it's never to do with intelligence. It's an established fact that intelligence gained from torture is almost always useless or false. Which is a lesson learnt I suppose during Roman times as well as governments in the current era (I hope!).