Enhanced interrogation techniques

during interrogations of prisoners, codifying a ban President Barack Obama issued by executive order shortly after he was sworn in. The use of torture has been a hot topic for the past several years, mainly because of its use by the Bush administration and the intelligence gained through torture eventually leading us to finding Osama Bin Laden. Many try…

Visualize a scenario where the United States government receives information that a terrorist attack will occur in a major American city. The United States government acts quickly and identifies an individual who they believe has information regarding this expected attack. Is it then acceptable for the government to torture the suspect into revealing information? Can the dignity of one individual be violated in order to potentially save the lives of others? Many would believe that this type of…

and have subsequently changed the nation’s perception of the word interrogation, its meaning, use, and popularity. Ever since the tragedy of September 11 attacks, The American public has become aware that the United States is no longer invulnerable to terrorist attacks. Nowadays, people think that interrogation and torture are the same because 24 imposed on viewers the idea that torture is the most effective type of interrogation. According to the Human Rights First, less than four acts of…

continue to suffer for the rest of their lives. The mental and physical cost of torture can’t be disregarded. Not only is it physically and emotionally painful, it is also physically and emotionally traumatizing. For critics of the punishment and interrogation method, gaining information through the use of pain is incredibly barbaric and heinous. In the middle ages, torture was used as both a form of punishment and humiliation as well as a way of obtaining confessions. There are those who see…

Ethics Article Assignment Scenario: 1) I do agree with torture because of how desperate the situation is. If it was my choice to choose between torturing one man or having the guilt of hundreds of people’s death on my hands, I would rather choose to torture the man to find the bomb. It will not be morally justifiable to torture the bomber’s wife to make the bomber talk, as she may not have known about his plans. Until officials are 100% sure that the wife was also in on the bombing plan, they…

the article The Ticking Time Bomb, Dershowitz tries to justify the use of non-lethal torture in-order to protect destruction. For instance, when a terrorist who has planted bombs is captured and they do not reveal about their terror plots during interrogation; the use of non-lethal torture such as putting a needle under the fingernails is justifiable as it will help to save hundreds of lives. For example, if a dog is suffering from a disease and, there is no way of giving anesthesia to the dog,…

psychological effects to both the person being tortured and the one having to apply it. Torture under any circumstance is not acceptable; it is inhuman, immoral and just plain wrong. Up until now tortures had been used as a form of punishment and as an interrogation method,…

peer reviewed, it is a weaker paper in my opinion compared to the popular article written by Burgess. Burgess’ paper uses a variety of ethos, pathos, and logos throughout the article whereas Petersen’s paper was quite limited in these writing techniques. Ethos, pathos, and logos are appeals that writers use to prove their point. Ethos has to do with credibility. An example…

In August of 2008 the late Christopher Hitchens wrote an essay published in Vanity Fair that was titled “Believe Me, It’s Torture”. This essay was unique because of its strange pairing of content and audience. Christopher Hitchens had decided to put a fairly controversial political essay in a magazine that targets women, covers fashion and pop culture, and typically steers away from politics entirely. This shows that his intended audience was the average adult woman in america. Christopher…

Imagine that you are a child living in Afghanistan waking up early every morning to go to a water tap that just runs for 2 hours every other day. In the video “The Plight of Afghanistan’s Child Water Carriers” by Zarf Nazar and the article “The Plight of Afghanistan’s Child Water Carriers” by Sayeaed Jan Sabwoon both explain this problem even though they have many similarities and differences. There are many similarities between the video “The Plight of Afghanistan’s Child Water Carriers” by…