Torture

does not have to be time-consuming." (Pfiffner, n.d.) It is the government's duty to protect its citizens from the anticipation and the act of being terrorized. The question remains: Is torture ever justified? Should governments be given judicial approval for using torture in the 'extreme…

When hearing about torture, whether on the news or in an article, we as Americans do not consider the lasting effects it has on people. Physical and psychological torture is mainly employed as war tactics, to get information out of people. Torture is not a concept that is talked about on a day to day basis, because of the many freedoms we experience as Americans. In the article The Case for Torture, Michael Levin portrays torture as something that should be permissible. He uses a bomb being on…

Is it right to torture people? The answer is plainly obvious to the majority of the public but not the torturer. It is said that people who torture people have a level of sadism on the part of the captor (“Private Writing”). Which causes wrong doing onto the captured to fight against or deflect pain to sustain their selves. Those who resist are given a worse treatment as to be assumed to take more punishment by the glutton sadist. More people praise this method because it is efficient and…

satisfying feel for what it was like for Henri Alleg. He discusses a typical day an imprisoner had to go through as well as his own personal encounters with torture. Throughout the book Alleg goes into great detail of the methods French soldiers used on him. The main purpose of this book is reveal and educate people on the horror that is torture from a first person experience. This is why The Question was banned by the French government after two weeks of its release from the popularity the…

Deontological Ethical Position on Torture Philosopher Albert Camus said that “A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon the world” (Camus, n.d.). The statement expresses the imperative need for mankind to comprehensively understand ethics in order to deem actions as right or wrong. Ethics are used to decipher what should be done when faced with controversial moral dilemmas, such as the torture of humans. Immanuel Kant was an ethicist and philosopher who developed his own ethical system…

Levin’s hypothetical leads to the illogical “A Case For Torture” is an essay written by Michael Levin in which he tries to make a compelling case for the use of torture as a punishment during certain situations in the United States. One of the ways Levin tries to logically prove his argument is by citing different real life situations; some examples are situations that actually occurred, but most are hypothetical situations. The use of hypothetical situations is meant to help direct the reader…

Since the article “The Case for Torture” by Michael Levin was published in Newsweek in 1982, it has stirred up many debates regarding the universal use of torture. Levin believes that torture is justifiable in extreme cases such as preventing terrorism to save lives. Levin argues by giving examples of make-believe scenarios in which the only two options given are to either meet the demands of the terrorist or to torture the terrorist so that innocent lives can be spared; however, Levin’s…

procon2016.org, Donald Trump showed his bias on torture. In several articles covering Donald Trump’s opinion on torture, there is conservative and liberal sides shown through the commentary. One article from the Washington Post includes John Mccain opinion on waterboarding while the other article from the New York Times only includes only the thoughts from Donald Trump. In the article from the Washington Post, the main theme of the bias is torture is a horrible practice. I found bias towards…

Another practice that Orwell displayed was the use of torture to make people confess to crimes they never committed. In 1984, Winston was brought to the ministry of love and underwent torture in order to break his will and rebellious spirit in a way that in the end, nothing will remain except his love for Big brother. They achieved this through prolonged torture and brainwashing. By bringing Winston to his limit and making him think that he was being spared by his torturer, the torturer manages…

Should anyone be able to strap a potential informant “to a board with his feet above his head, his mouth and nose covered,[and pour water] over his face” (”Is Torture Effective”) in order to extract information or destroy “entire villages...to kill just a few enemies”("Napalm use in Vietnam")? Imagine being in one of these situations; on the other hand, imagine being saved from a deadly attack because of information given by a tortured prisoner or finally feeling safe because a dangerous…