The Pros And Cons Of Waterboarding

One thing people don’t often think about, is whether or not it is right if someone brutally mugged them. Perception says, that it’s inherently wrong, and nobody should undergo that, unless they are volunteering for it themselves. If that is so, then following into the United Nations, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article Five states, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” (United Nations), would anyone argue the truth and validity behind that article?
However, besides it being innately wrong, further looking into it, what makes it wrong? Primarily being, is equality in a sense. Equality of human life is broken when, one human being enacts a violent act upon another, …show more content…
Is this how I am going to die? Air, I can breathe! What, no! please, stop!” This Joe, the person thought to be in cohorts with the criminal/organization, and is undergoing one of the more basic torture methods known as waterboarding. But what is waterboarding? Waterboarding is torture method done by strapping down, immobilizing someone at an inclined angle and then taking a towel and covering the persons face while pouring water onto the towel. What this does, is it simulates drowning, over and over again. It is excruciatingly painful and damages the brain, lungs and periphery organs. Not only does Joe break easily under this method and splurge out information that sounded exactly like what the tortures were looking for, they had the right man! Right? After research done into the effectiveness of it, often times people undergoing it will often give out information to the interrogator whether or not the information is true, or whether they fabricated it in order to appease the person of power. If the method is, shot in the dark at best, for gaining insightful and true to fact information, then one would figure that it is an archaic an outdated form of information