Often associated with the barbaric and vile, torture has existed for thousands of years. In modern times mankind condemns torture as just that, a fossil of a time long past where mankind lived an unenlightened, vicious existence. Many humanitarians have argued for the eradication of torture as a way to punish someone or extract information. However, one could argue the persistence of torture as a means of interrogation throughout history lends credit to it as a viable method of information extraction. The innocent lives saved through the use of torture has and continues to yield results that far outweigh the suffering of one guilty party.
Which has higher value, the pain of the individual life or the life of many? Civilians, detached from …show more content…
People have different morals such as how to treat women or the role of children in a household or what you should do when you see someone in need of help. Most people have their own set of blanket morals such as you do not take advantage of women or you do not kill people. A line can sit between morals and saving lives. Lives hold irrefutable value, so when innocent lives are endangered, most nations, parties or individuals throw morals out the window to save said people. When someone has to make a decision, to try get information from a terrorist who has killed thousands of people I hope that they use torture and do not stop until they save the people in …show more content…
These types of torture prevail for when trying to break a criminal, but do not necessarily need the information right away. When using these psychological tortures, you trying to break them by breaking their mind or drive them insane, and not use physical torture because you would not technically cause physical harm to them.When people think about torture they often think of forms like waterboarding, putting a rag over someone’s face and pouring water over it making it impossible to breathe without water going into their lungs, or physically beating them, burning their skin, or electrocution. If you want fast results, these methods of torture yield results much faster than other forms of
Which has higher value, the pain of the individual life or the life of many? Civilians, detached from …show more content…
People have different morals such as how to treat women or the role of children in a household or what you should do when you see someone in need of help. Most people have their own set of blanket morals such as you do not take advantage of women or you do not kill people. A line can sit between morals and saving lives. Lives hold irrefutable value, so when innocent lives are endangered, most nations, parties or individuals throw morals out the window to save said people. When someone has to make a decision, to try get information from a terrorist who has killed thousands of people I hope that they use torture and do not stop until they save the people in …show more content…
These types of torture prevail for when trying to break a criminal, but do not necessarily need the information right away. When using these psychological tortures, you trying to break them by breaking their mind or drive them insane, and not use physical torture because you would not technically cause physical harm to them.When people think about torture they often think of forms like waterboarding, putting a rag over someone’s face and pouring water over it making it impossible to breathe without water going into their lungs, or physically beating them, burning their skin, or electrocution. If you want fast results, these methods of torture yield results much faster than other forms of