Enhanced Fujita Scale

Military members are undoubtedly held to a higher standard than the rest of society. Most citizens look to a uniformed military member in times of need. Even though military members are held to a higher standard, there are some circumstances in recent history where uniformed members have not met the standard. Torture in the military is one of these circumstances in which military members are not meeting the standard. Once the definition of torture is recognized, then torture should not be…

interrogation program, of 119 detainees captured between 2002-2008, 26 were found to be wrongfully held. Innocent people are losing their lives due to the ineffectiveness and cruelness of torture. In addition, 39 of these detainees were “subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques, which included sleep deprivation, waterboarding,…

Wil Hughes Ms. Lusby English Composition 12/1/16 Justice system vs. Reputation Has the justice system in present time and in the past has been fair to every inmate in the prisons throughout the United States? Throughout this paper I will explain how the justice system has and has not been fair to the inmate’s that have been through a court of law. There are improvements that the justice system can make to make sure that the person who committed the crime is the person who gets put into prison…

Jessica Wolfendale discusses what permitting torture would involve realistically in her work Training Torturers: A Critique of the “Ticking Bomb” Argument. The hypothetical ticking bomb argument fails to distinguish a justification of the general practice and individual instances of torture. She refers to the discussion as “a new war in which moral constraints do not apply”, for to allow torture is to allow the training of torturers. Historically they have been chosen for obedience,…

“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,…