Interrogation

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,…

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…

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…

The declaration of war on Al Qaeda, in September 2001, torture had been outsourced to U.S. allies. Following September 2001, an increasing public consensus emerged in favor of torture. George Bush’s administration was secretly sanctioning harsh interrogation…

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…

Torture is a method of interrogation that the government uses to receive information they need out of suspects, so they could potentially stop future attacks on the U.S. Torture can be looked at as something horrible and inhumane, but it can also be seen as something the government must do to keep the public safe. It must be hard to have to hurt someone because they choose to put innocent lives in danger, but this is something the government has chosen to do. Whether or not the government has…

“He was put into isolation for 47 days when the interrogation team traveled, and during his next interrogation, the team used enhanced techniques, including waterboarding.”Jeremy Ashkenas, Fairfield, Keller, Volpe. The CIA hides information from the government and they hide their tactics about torturing. They justify themselves and they make sure that the public does not know about any of it. The novel 1984 talks about the Ministry of Love and how they torture and isolate the people. 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,…

s the use of torture against terrorist suspects ever justified? The idea of torture is probably one of the worse things that I could ever imagine. I am a strong believer of treating others how I wish to be treated, that being said I understand that not many if any share my thoughts on that matter. The simple fact stands that to me torture no matter if the victim is a terrorist suspect is not ever justified The United States may have captured many person who they are accusing of being a…

Torture is legal for two main reasons. The first reason is The Bush Administration was able to use the method of torture because they proved that it was enhanced interrogation. They did not call it torture. They are exactly the same because of the methods that are used. 15 out of the 18 techniques were allowed to be used by the Bush Administration, in 2002, on prisoners. Torture can be justified because of the morality…