Enhanced interrogation techniques

something and that they know something that he doesn’t so to him by saying that he did it. He believes he’s going to be let go by complying with the police and telling them what they wanted hear come from him. “Sometimes law enforcement use harsh interrogation tactics with uncooperative suspects, but some police officers, convinced of a suspect’s guilt, occasionally use tactics so persuasive that an innocent person feels compelled to confess” (Garret). An example of law enforcements using harsh…

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…

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,…

should be the last options, and used only if there is a probable cause and reasonable suspect on the individual, and the victim refuses to answer. If the subject miraculously stay persistent on not responding, then authorities need to stop the interrogation, keep the prisoner captive and interrogate further at another…

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…

account before throwing their blind faith behind an action. While this discussion has primarily been about interrogation, these principles are applicable to any questionable or controversial action of the state. First, how can Christians demonstrate the most love for others and the greatest respect for human dignity in an effort to carry out Jesus’ call for justice of the innocent. Interrogation may just be that tool to demonstrate love for the thousands of neighbors at home. However, the issue…

the techniques the Gestapo used to obtain the wanted information. The techniques the Gestapo used to gain information are similar to some techniques used today by the CIA. One technique is, “Long Time Standing: This technique is described among the most effective. Prisoners are forced to stand, handcuffed and with their feet shackled to an eye bolt in the floor for more than 40 hours. Exhaustion and sleep deprivation are effective in yielding confessions” (CIA’s Harsh Interrogation Techniques…