Is Wrong To Torture Wrong

overlooked by almost all nations. Under the just war theory, once an enemy surrenders, they are not a threat to you anymore. It pretty much implies that it is wrong to torture and mistreat your enemies under almost any circumstance. As we know, many nations do not abide by this. We hear about prisoners being waterboarded, strapped to a mattress frame and electrocuted, and all sorts of horrible things. Hannah Gold from the Washington Speculator interviewed Eric Fair about his memoir about torturing people in Iraq during the Bush administration, he said “I learn to leave the room during the worst of the sounds” then he said after torturing them “I place a hood over my detainees, secure their feet to the iron loop in the floor, and abandon them to their own imaginations. …show more content…
I return and remove the hood.” This means we are not only physically torturing people, we are torturing them mentally. The question is, is it wrong to torture someone if they have information that could save the life of your soldiers. This is a moral issue and in my opinion yes, you can torture someone if they are withholding information that could potentially save the lives of others. As soon as they give you the information though, they must be treated as a worthy opponent with respect and no longer tortured or mistreated. The fifth criteria in jus in bello is called no means. No means is meant that there are certain things that by no means should ever be allowed in war. Some examples of this would be allowing soldiers to engage in mass rape, or forcing enemy soldiers to fight against one another, or using weapons that cannot be controlled such as biological