Jacob barrett
Mr. Ricci
November 4, 2014
Ap English Is Torture Necessary For the United States In the debate on torture in the United states, it is the widely believed that torture is a reasonable way to obtain information. The United Nations Convention for discussing Torture passed in 1994, torture to be defined as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person” in order to collect information or to punish the person “for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or for the intimidation to coercing him or a third person for any reason.” Torture in most situations is both time sensitive and necessary to save lives along with that …show more content…
Torture to sum has many aspects of pro and con but for the United States torture can be greatly helpful in providing information that otherwise without it would kill many innocent people. If we were able to prevent the september eleventh attacks, thousands of lives would have been saved, along with billions of dollars in economic damage. Intelligence agents had information that Osama bin Laden was up to something, but they had nothing specific as to place and time. Today, the FBI and CIA are in the same situation. The next attack could involve a nuclear "dirty" bomb, an anthrax or smallpox bioweapons attack, or a poisonous chemical attack. What had happened on september eleventh was terrible, but the devastation of a mass destruction weapons attack could be a force that has no reckoning. Of course torture may not be moral, but we are talking about the lives of many thousands, possibly even millions. Low level attacks like a homicide bombing could cause the loss of many Americans lives, even if …show more content…
Administered by the sick people that are insistent on continuing terrorism. As we saw with the American soldiers and government politicians in Iraq. It does not matter how well we treat our captured because our soldiers will always be faced with brutal torture or death in tenfold. Consider the terrorists held from Guantanamo Bay. The prison there holds some of the most evil, venom spewing men in the world. Yet, we feed them well, allow them books and prayer time? how do we refrain from beating them senseless. Several prisoners released from there have said they were treated well and fed better than in their own country which is close to unacceptable. Anything short of a god awful experience described by prisoners to the roads of hell is a failure. Prison is there for a reason and if we are doing anything but teach them a lesson equal to their punishment is inconceivable. The point is, it does not matter what they did to become prisoners if they come out of a prison thinking we give them the royal treatment, we have not done our job and it would be better to just send them home for a harder time. In the end Torture overtime has become much more humane and you get what you need very efficiently. Most of us were taught "Do unto others and let them do unto you." This famous quote means that what they have done
Mr. Ricci
November 4, 2014
Ap English Is Torture Necessary For the United States In the debate on torture in the United states, it is the widely believed that torture is a reasonable way to obtain information. The United Nations Convention for discussing Torture passed in 1994, torture to be defined as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person” in order to collect information or to punish the person “for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or for the intimidation to coercing him or a third person for any reason.” Torture in most situations is both time sensitive and necessary to save lives along with that …show more content…
Torture to sum has many aspects of pro and con but for the United States torture can be greatly helpful in providing information that otherwise without it would kill many innocent people. If we were able to prevent the september eleventh attacks, thousands of lives would have been saved, along with billions of dollars in economic damage. Intelligence agents had information that Osama bin Laden was up to something, but they had nothing specific as to place and time. Today, the FBI and CIA are in the same situation. The next attack could involve a nuclear "dirty" bomb, an anthrax or smallpox bioweapons attack, or a poisonous chemical attack. What had happened on september eleventh was terrible, but the devastation of a mass destruction weapons attack could be a force that has no reckoning. Of course torture may not be moral, but we are talking about the lives of many thousands, possibly even millions. Low level attacks like a homicide bombing could cause the loss of many Americans lives, even if …show more content…
Administered by the sick people that are insistent on continuing terrorism. As we saw with the American soldiers and government politicians in Iraq. It does not matter how well we treat our captured because our soldiers will always be faced with brutal torture or death in tenfold. Consider the terrorists held from Guantanamo Bay. The prison there holds some of the most evil, venom spewing men in the world. Yet, we feed them well, allow them books and prayer time? how do we refrain from beating them senseless. Several prisoners released from there have said they were treated well and fed better than in their own country which is close to unacceptable. Anything short of a god awful experience described by prisoners to the roads of hell is a failure. Prison is there for a reason and if we are doing anything but teach them a lesson equal to their punishment is inconceivable. The point is, it does not matter what they did to become prisoners if they come out of a prison thinking we give them the royal treatment, we have not done our job and it would be better to just send them home for a harder time. In the end Torture overtime has become much more humane and you get what you need very efficiently. Most of us were taught "Do unto others and let them do unto you." This famous quote means that what they have done