Is torture ever ok?

Question

Its the old "If a terrorist has a bomb in New York City is it ok to torture him to find out where it is?"

If so...How few people have to be in danger to torture someone? (Or kill someone) 2? 3? And if not...How many people have to be killed to make the torture/killing ok? You may say no to 2 or 3 or a thousand...But what about a million? A billion? 5 billion? At some point you have to say that its ok to torture/kill the person. But if you say that you are placing a limit. What if its one less person than that limit? 2 less? 100 less? Im sure you see my point. This just causes a lot of problems.

Thoughts?

I believe in those "rights" as you put them. Im personally torn on this one but Im leaning more towards it is never ok to torture.

Answer 1

Never ever. If any human being tortures another then he or she is bringing heaven's ire upon his and his children's head.
There are many forms of torture and we are all guilty of it sometimes. Let's never divest of our humanity by mistreating others.

Answer 2

Torture is a gadget like all different gadget. If it works, use it. Regretfully, torture does not paintings. rather everyone seems to be coerced to tell you something whilst confronted with torture. they'll inform you cows hop over the moon or what ever is composed of ideas, genuine or no longer genuine. there are multiple issues I disagree with John McCain on yet that guy became tortured and he's conscious the outcomes and no remember if it works or no longer. His opinion, it does not justify the moral transgression for the guidance you're able to extract. Torture would properly be effectual as an addition to proper interrogation innovations. stable cop, undesirable cop. The undesirable cop instills soreness and then the stable cop extracts the guidance wanted via figuring out with the concern and offering alleviation. technique used in many police television tutor.

Answer 3

Depends on how kinky you are (just kidding). Personally believe one life is not equal to 10 or 100 or even 1000. Torture should not be allowed, it is degrading and wrong. Too bad so many people believe they have the right to take another person's life or several for some cause that puts them on an alter of self sacrifice that kills them as well.

Answer 4

I want to know what torture is? Is it listening to rock and roll really loud? Is it when women interrogate Muslims? Is it simulating drowning? My acupuncturist made a joke about Gitmo, but it's probably true that he could make anyone talk. then they'd get up and say, "Hey that pain I had there is gone. You fixed my shoulder!"

It seems like at some point torture is warranted, but as to where and when and how, I don't want the job of making those decisions.

That is what the NSA is for, isn't it, and the Pentagon and those people?

Answer 5

We are compelled to deal with so many of them - one such necessary evil is torture. Justification of torture can not lie in the ultimate event - it unfortunately lies in the facts as known before the event. As already stated, it is a necessary evil which can of course be abused and often so and yet there is no other alternative to torture as a means of making someone spill out the dark truths with the purpose of trying to avoid a dire incident.

Answer 6

Not according to liberals and their ACLU champion, who believe in terrorists so-called "rights" over the lives of millions of innocent men, women and children.

The media has to be dis-embedded from the military, and the military needs to be left alone to take care of business. Had those liberals been around during WW2, we would have lost.

"Torture" charges have become fashionable, and now we have 8 people being held and abused because of some vague charged by the enemy, itself. I'm referring, of course, to those being held at Camp Pendleton, and everyone should protest. False charges like this are now springing up all over the place, and this is a part of how the enemy is waging war.

Answer 7

If you need to extract information from a person to save even a single live, please by all means torture this person in whatever ways. But if you torture for the fun of it or to make this person to confess a crime which you don't have a slight tinge of evidence, then don't use torture.

Answer 8

What ever it takes....The current so called tortures being used are nothing more than annoyances.
I see torture as slitting nostrils cutting, off fingers and ears.
Hobbling, breaking bones....not putting underwear on someones head or making them listen to rock music...and sleep deprivation...please anyone who stays awake too long will fall asleep and there ain't nothing that's going to wake him.

Answer 9

maybe but torture does occur in our society
constantly we are buying expensive products like cars and jewels meanwhile we are technically torturing another person,
maybe it depends on what we actually see as torture, as for the question of less people than physically are there, could we count the people who are there in spirit
your right difficult question