2006-10-12 12:05:57 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Torture is immoral, and in most countries illegal, and also illogical.
If someone is subjected to sufficient pain, they will say absolutely anything if they believe it will cause the pain to cease.
Statements made under torture are not reliable.
2006-10-13 15:11:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think suspected is the correct word, I wonder what the reaction if the American people would be if the police tortured all SUSPECTS to get information? Not only the guilty party but everyone they picked up. Do you actually think everyone picked up is a terrorist or could there really be a few innocent people there. How would you feel if you were tortured within an inch of your life and you were innocent? How would you feel toward the people who did the torturing?
2006-10-12 13:24:39 · answer #2 · answered by firewomen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Torturing gets answers, but it doesn't get true answers. Someone who is being tortured will spew out anything the torturer wants to hear. So anyone who is accused of a crime they did not commit will admit to doing what they didn't actually do. And if a person doesn't know the answer to the question being asked, they will give any answer that will make the pain stop.
Another reason is that it is an act that is illegal under the Geneva Conventions. There are rules to follow in times of war. Like the game of chess... We don't just do things we feel like doing. We follow rules, and use different strategies. Even if we are at war against an uncivilized opponent
To those who say it's the liberals fault.. The Geneva Conventions are INTERNATIONAL laws, and article 3 talks about treatment towards prisoners of war.
Now, I doubt terrorists follow rules under the Geneva Conventions, but when they are our prisoners, we must still abide by these laws.
2006-10-12 12:35:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay, lets role-play: You are a lowly recruit for an organization lets say the Al-quiada, you have been captured by US Troops and they decide to interrogate you for some information regarding troop movement/location and future assualt plans, how ever you only know what your Commanding Officer told you regarding todays attacks, you try to explain that you know nothing and can not help them, they don't belive and begin physically beating you asking the same questions again and again for which you have no answers too, and they think you do, they move onto more excruiatingly painful torture, removing fingernails, breaking bones, burning your flesh believing you are still with holding information, do you make something up, or do you resist til death? If you really belive that torture is a good way to retreiver accurate information your dead wrong, not only does it create false information (the guy will soon tell you anythign you want to hear) it also increases hostilities towards our troops turning them from liberators to monsters... Get educated it can't hurt all that bad seesh.
2006-10-12 12:16:32 · answer #4 · answered by viskovx51 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes down to a legal point. Whilst terrorists are terrible and the things they do awful, in order to apprehend them legally and get the case to court you have to obtain evidence (information)legally. Which means not getting information by duress (torture). Unfortunately it comes down to brains over brawn I'm afraid.
2006-10-12 12:19:33 · answer #5 · answered by Snoopyk8 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you know the person being tortured won't say
just anything to stop the torture?
What if the tortured person is innocent?
It would make us look even worse to rest of the planet.
2006-10-12 12:11:20 · answer #6 · answered by Calee 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Greetings!
Real people are able to see past their emotions and think with their brain. And then there are conservatives.
What is there to learn that even a Republican, can't figure out. Then, if you can't just listen to the junkie Rush, and he will tell you what to think.
In the world there a lemmings and there are men, you choose which you want to be
Good Luck
2006-10-12 12:14:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I assume, from this question, that you are conservative. I also, please forgive me if I am wrong and/or you take offense at my saying this, assume that you, or at least many of those who share your expressed opinion, claim to value morality and/or religion. Perhaps such people have heard of the Golden Rule, even if they haven't heard of the Geneva Conventions or Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Golden Rule states that one should not do unto others what he would not have done unto him.
2006-10-12 12:38:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand it either. Why do brave warriors like John McCain and Colin Powell oppose torture, but draft dodging cowards like George Bush support torture?
2006-10-12 12:12:59 · answer #9 · answered by abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the argument is that our troops will be tortured if we torture them , i think that is BS but have never been in a war . my point being not to many people can debate this topic due to them having no idea what they are talking about . I don't see the people we are fighting in the iraq war holding back on our troops because we didn't torture theirs but could be wrong
2006-10-12 12:12:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋