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worked for George Bush. I’m proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things we did , that people didn’t like and- and criticized us for, things like the terror surveillance program or the enhanced interrogation techniques, were things that allowed us to save lives.” -Dick Cheney. Cheney had been in congress for six terms before running for vice-president with George Bush. He served for two terms with president Bush. Defense, energy use, and the Middle East he…

Imagine that someone has buried your family alive. You have the suspect in custody, but the only way to get the location of your family and save them, is if you torture the suspect. What do you do? By not torturing the suspect, your family dies, but is torture justified? I believe that in extreme circumstances torture is justifiable, when the lives of innocents outweigh the comfort of the guilty. In recent years torture has become a highly debated topic. After 9/11, President Bush authorized the…

especially in situations where thousands of innocent lives are at stake. Saving many lives at the expense of a single individual who is orchestrating matter is more permissible.Torture, an advanced interrogation technique, gathers information far more efficiently than any other technique, and it should be justified because information can be more easily retrieved from criminals. Torture is justified as a measure of preventing future evils because it is an…

Torture is defined as the international use of physical or physiological pain to gain advantage over one another. It has also been known as extreme anguish of body or mind. Torture has been around since the times of Ancient Greece and is still around today. Depending on the aim, even a form of torture that is intentionally fatal may be prolonged to allow the victim to suffer as long as possible. Torture is an act of inflicting pain, degrading someone, and exacting vengeance. One extremely…

Two wrongs don’t make a right, how can you morally solve a problem is there is no ethically correct answer. Torture is a problem from hell, sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils. BBC conducted a survey in 2006 about the use of torture. The survey included over 27,000 people from 25 different countries. The majority of the population agreed that torture in prisons should not be allowed; it is immoral and it weakens human right standards. Although there was a mass agreement about…

Zero Dark Thirty: Torture Introduction Popular 2012 film “Zero Dark Thirty” depicted several scenes of intense questioning and the use of torture on captured persons believed to be connected to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden (OBL). The conclusion to that part of the story consisted of a resilient prisoner being kept awake for four days straight, and when he recovered he found himself being rewarded. His captors told him he had broken and given them information, so they were treating him nicely…

The United Nation convention defined torture as an act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person to obtain information from him or other. In the ancient Roma and Greece practiced torture for those who were found guilt. In Roma, slaves were torture for, as either witnesses or as the accused. “common punishments included crucifixion, mutilation, and the subjection of the allegedly guilty person to the appetites of wild animals in an…

Throughout human history, torture has been used to methodically obtain information by inflicting psychological or physical pain on an individual. The practice of torture has been prohibited under The United Nation’s Declaration of Human Rights, which has been sanctioned by 155 nations (The United Nations, 1984). Nevertheless, the United States has ratified the use of torture as recently as 2008. The Bush administration allowed the use of torture methods in interrogations of individuals connected…

When it comes to the topic of torture, we can readily agree that it is a very controversial topic, where this agreement ends however, is on whether or not we should allow torture used by government agencies and even our police force. Some people say that torture should not be allowed under any circumstances, while others believe that torture should be used regularly as a form of interrogation. I believe that torture should only be used under rare circumstances. Some circumstances may include…

necessary to keep their country safe. There are many known methods of torture and they can be dated back to centuries before today. Marie- Monique Robin, a documentary filmmaker, reviews the history of torture and brings up how governments teach each other different torture techniques (Thornton). Waterboarding, for instance, is a technique when the suspect…