Ticking Time Bomb
The term torture makes teeth cringe with scenes of a person tied down to a chair with ruptured lips, busted up face, in a closed place full of people taking turns in “punching the truth” out of them. Torturers have an illusion of discovering the “truth” through inventive shapes of inflicting tortuous pain on a terrorist. Throughout times of crisis, this technique can be attractive to practice. The ticking time bomb scenario is always a form in a try to justify torture. These techniques can cause a negative effect on communities in our nation. Torture should not be an option.
Torture is defined as the act of inflicting agonizing pain, as revenge or punishment, as a means of getting a revelation or information, or for absolute …show more content…
Social control will not exist within the nation. The government is what sets the tempo of a nation. People within a country reflect what the leaders enforce and act the way they permit it. If torture is enforced in this nation, what will stop a citizen to do the same to extract information from his own neighbor over a city issue? Setting the example for a nation is very important and that is a reason torture was outlawed thought out the world until the attacks of 9/11. That event justified torture as the measure to find who was behind the attacks. It is relevant that many Americans disregarded the effects of torturing because it was a nation in turmoil. Torture was justified even though the United States signed Article 1 written by the U.N. (United Nations) in 1988 which stated:
Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information a confession . . . when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. (Costanzo and
The term torture makes teeth cringe with scenes of a person tied down to a chair with ruptured lips, busted up face, in a closed place full of people taking turns in “punching the truth” out of them. Torturers have an illusion of discovering the “truth” through inventive shapes of inflicting tortuous pain on a terrorist. Throughout times of crisis, this technique can be attractive to practice. The ticking time bomb scenario is always a form in a try to justify torture. These techniques can cause a negative effect on communities in our nation. Torture should not be an option.
Torture is defined as the act of inflicting agonizing pain, as revenge or punishment, as a means of getting a revelation or information, or for absolute …show more content…
Social control will not exist within the nation. The government is what sets the tempo of a nation. People within a country reflect what the leaders enforce and act the way they permit it. If torture is enforced in this nation, what will stop a citizen to do the same to extract information from his own neighbor over a city issue? Setting the example for a nation is very important and that is a reason torture was outlawed thought out the world until the attacks of 9/11. That event justified torture as the measure to find who was behind the attacks. It is relevant that many Americans disregarded the effects of torturing because it was a nation in turmoil. Torture was justified even though the United States signed Article 1 written by the U.N. (United Nations) in 1988 which stated:
Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information a confession . . . when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. (Costanzo and