Introduction It is hard to imagine the world without wars. People study wars of the past in history classes since the beginning of these classes. Some studied wars even before history classes started to exist, for example in ancient Greece, Aristotle was teaching pupils about wars of Alexander the Great. Famous philosopher Plato said: “Only the dead have seen the end of war”, that means wars are eternal, they never end; if one war ends, another starts immediately and the worst is that there are many wars occurring in different places of the world simultaneously. The major problem about wars is that it violates human rights. There was no war in the history of humanity, in which no one died. Even if Cold War was the edge of the real nuclear
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In United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment torture is defined as follows: “Torture means 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 or a confession…”. In another word, torture is one of the methods that is used over prisoners during the wartime as an act of interrogation. It can be physical or psychological. The well-known method of torturing prisoners is using of gas chambers of gas vans. They were used in large scales during World War II by Nazi Germany for mass annihilation of Jewish people. According to Michelle Maiese, psychological torture is a kind of torture when victims are not allowed to eat, drink, sleep or are kept stood up for hours or anguished by noise; physical torture is mostly mutilation of victim’s body (2003). Laws prohibit using torture, or unnecessary suffering during wartime (Maiese, 2003), but Darrel Cole argues, that torture is justifiable in some cases. Torture is legalized only in that cases when effect of it is proportionate to expected outcome which should benefit a nation. And more severe is torture, better should be the expected outcome (Cole, 2012). Jeremy Wisnewski agrees with Cole and claims that negative opinion about torture is prima facie. Overall, people consider torture …show more content…
they read about torture in books, or watched documentaries). Hypothetically, Georgians, no matter of what age category, react to torture during wartime in general as the majority of world population – negatively, as Wisnewski asserted
In United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment torture is defined as follows: “Torture means 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 or a confession…”. In another word, torture is one of the methods that is used over prisoners during the wartime as an act of interrogation. It can be physical or psychological. The well-known method of torturing prisoners is using of gas chambers of gas vans. They were used in large scales during World War II by Nazi Germany for mass annihilation of Jewish people. According to Michelle Maiese, psychological torture is a kind of torture when victims are not allowed to eat, drink, sleep or are kept stood up for hours or anguished by noise; physical torture is mostly mutilation of victim’s body (2003). Laws prohibit using torture, or unnecessary suffering during wartime (Maiese, 2003), but Darrel Cole argues, that torture is justifiable in some cases. Torture is legalized only in that cases when effect of it is proportionate to expected outcome which should benefit a nation. And more severe is torture, better should be the expected outcome (Cole, 2012). Jeremy Wisnewski agrees with Cole and claims that negative opinion about torture is prima facie. Overall, people consider torture …show more content…
they read about torture in books, or watched documentaries). Hypothetically, Georgians, no matter of what age category, react to torture during wartime in general as the majority of world population – negatively, as Wisnewski asserted