Waterboarding

Torture and cruel treatment is banned at all times, places, and including times of war (Torture). It is a terrible thing that still exists in some countries. People use it either to get information from people or to just hurt the person involved. We as people should not defend torture, because it is hurting people to get something. What is the reason that it is done? There are other methods to get information and possibly more effective ways. Torture has always been up for debate and it is a…

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…

Before. Waterboarding is a form of torture predominantly used during a war. It’s a method of interrogation used on detainees that forces them to provide answers/speak the truth. This form of barbaric torture involves having a detainee being restrained and strapped to an inclined board or platform. A cloth is used to cover the detainee’s face and water is then poured onto the inclined face and into the prisoner’s mouth or nose. The technique simulates the sensation of drowning without suffering…

Is this how I am going to die? Air, I can breathe! What, no! please, stop!” This Joe, the person thought to be in cohorts with the criminal/organization, and is undergoing one of the more basic torture methods known as waterboarding. But what is waterboarding? Waterboarding is torture method done by strapping down, immobilizing someone at an inclined angle and then taking a towel and covering the persons face while pouring water onto the towel. What this does, is it simulates drowning, over…

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 the liberal side…

To establish credibility and portray a trustworthy persona, Hitchens uses ethos. Hitchens uses ethos by having background knowledge on waterboarding as well as personal experience. “It was inflicted, and endured, by those members of the Special Forces who underwent the advance form of training known as SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape). In these harsh exercises, brave men and women were introduced to the sorts of barbarism that they might expect to meet at the hands of a lawless foe…

Aristotle would view the torture of waterboarding as an act of injustice, therefore he would say this method should not be used upon anyone. Although, I do…

Ethical Dilemma: Waterboarding in “Zero Dark Thirty” There are situations where information is needed and the person who has that information is not willing to share. In certain situations, extreme measures need to be taken to obtain that information. The movie “Zero Dark Thirty” depicts the story of CIA analysts looking to gather information on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. In the effort to gain information from Al Qaeda operatives, the interrogation method of waterboarding was used.…

terror through the August 2002 memo otherwise referred to as one of the “torture memos”. The torture memos expressly justified the use of EITs to elicit information from detainees. EITs included, sleep deprivation, entomophobia exploitation, and waterboarding. These severe techniques were provided legal cover because the torture memo defined torture to be pain “difficult for the individual to endure and… of an intensity akin to the pain accompanying serious physical injury such as death or organ…

od 2 Is the use of torture reasonable to use against suspected terrorists or war criminals? Torture is the action or practice of causing extreme pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to say or do something, in rare cases torture is used for the pleasure of the one inflicting the pain. Although is sounds pretty harsh and not very human, 67% of Americans think that torture is appropriate to use on suspected terrorist and war criminals. The use of torture against these people would…