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“Force-Feeding: Cruel at Guantánamo, but O.K. for Our Parents” is an article in the New York Times that talks about the cruelness of giving patients a feeding tube who don’t necessarily require it. It goes through the immoral ethics of putting a patient through the possibility of pressure ulcers on their back from lying in bed, clogging or dislodging of the tube, general discomfort, and pain. The article goes on to claim that feeding tubes also cause agony for the families of patients, as they…

“We tortured some folks.” Barack Obama, President of the United States, said in response to the release of the CIA torture report when he addressed post-9/11 America. Senator Dianne Feinstein accused the CIA of spying on the Senate’s intelligence committee. John Brennan, director of the CIA, denied that accusation. However, an investigation brought forth the truth; the CIA had penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee and found that the Senate was preparing a report…

The issue of whether or not torture is an effective and appropriate means of extracting information from subjects has been pondered for centuries. More so than ever before, the interrogation tactics used by the CIA after September 11, 2001 have been the subject of intense scrutiny. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the CIA ramped up its efforts to acquire human intelligence information deemed vital to United States national security. The compelling need to acquire information…

Torture has been the focus of ethical debate for quite some time. Many people have very different, opposing thoughts on whether it is alright to torture somebody or not. Whether it be torturing for information to save lives or punishment, the morals of have been discussed. Two schools of thought with differing views would be Human Rights advocates and the Consequentialists. A Human Rights advocate would suggest that torture is a cruel, unreliable method for retrieving information while a…

So what could Americans or their government say if torture were to be used against our own military? What would be the rationale for why it’s wrong? The excuse of the ticking time bomb may not work for those countries or groups that would seek to use torture against us, but there will always be another equally plausible excuse for torture, even if that excuse is simply the need for information that might save their people. And therein lies the difficulty of using torture against others, even…

GROUP DISCUSSION BOARD FORUM 2 INSTRUCTIONS To Torture or Not to Torture Ethical Controversies: Torture In this discussion I will interpret Holmes’ approaches to the moral decision for the use of torture in obtaining information from suspected terrorists or those with knowledge of terrorist activities among the theory Utilitarianism, Kantian duty-based ethics, Virtue ethics, Christian-principle based ethics. The Utilitarianism ethicist would support torture as justifiable. Utilitarianism,…

for several days standing or with hands retrained above their heads until the victims were forced to tell the truth or even lie to make the pain stop. According to United States Senate Committee on the interrogation program reported that “the most enhanced interrogation technique used in this program is sleep deprivation.” This means that this technique was the most popular for the government in order to achieve accurate information from the criminals. Furthermore, Pharmacological torture is the…

Osama Bin Laden was found because of torture on terrorist subjects associated with him, yet many Americans are still in opposition of this strategy that captured the most dangerous man in the world just a few years ago. The effective use of maltreatment to avert a probable threat against the U.S. (terrorism) is often undermined because of its immorality in the perception of society. This maltreatment is often referred to as torture. This horrid or brutally immoral tactic term is loathed by many…

Torturers in the Middle Ages were used to violently frighten, force confessions, punish, and to satisfy personal hatred towards the accused. (McDonald 1) Torture in the Medieval Times was today’s form of interrogation, but was used with multiple torturing devices. Torture was performed in the torture chambers or the dungeons, usually located in the lower parts of the castles. Before torture was approved the accused would have to be proven mostly guilty, but not completely, before torture was…

Imagine being chained in a small box, naked, scared, and hungry, but you killed dozens of people in an attack you performed. Would you expect remorse? Some people believe that torture violates rights and is an all in all horrific form of treatment. On the other hand, others think that torture is great to a point when it is used correctly. Although torture can be gruesome and harmful, some people believe it can be extremely beneficial to America regarding acts of terrorism. Throughout the…