I feel that torture is wrong. totally and completely wrong. I know some people believe that it is right in all cases (its okay if you do, u have just as much chance of getting best answer...unless ur going to give ur answer in a condescending or "im right and UR wrong" kinda way. just be nice about it). Anyway, those people usually say that its matter of national security and whatnot to ensure that every possible threat is taken care off...and that includes torturing a person who MIGHT have the information to a possible attack on whatever country. But, i feel that, you can never really know if the person is the REAL bad guy. because what if he/she is just an innocent person who got caught at the wrong place at a wrong time. Or he/she could have been framed to do such a task....or blackmailed and such. There is NO WAY of trully knowing that the person knows something that is crucial....and personally, that is just TOO MUCH of a chance to take. im out of room.
stupid character limit.!
2007-06-19 09:38:04 · 11 answers · asked by <3pirate 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
like i was saying:
i feel that that it is just too much of a chance to go ahead with the torture and then later realize that that person is innocent. or you might later save a lot of lives... but can you ever REALLY know that the person who got tortured isnt making it all up? it might be a cover story that was agreed upon before...in that case you still have just another bad guy instead of a innocent one.
2007-06-19 09:41:21 · update #1
Doc Moore: lol. sorry....you didnt have to read that. that was just my opinion. i was asking for urs...
2007-06-19 09:45:46 · update #2
The main problem I see with torture is that you don't know if the person is telling you the truth or making something up to end the torture. The kind of people you would be torturing (terrorists) are not doing what they are doing to better themselves. They are doing it because they believe in there cause heart and soul. They are very unlikely to give up any information that is going to help anyone and are very likely to make things up to throw off there captor.
Aside from this, if we justify using torture on our enemy, it justifies them using torture on our soldiers. Think of it this way, we torture them and get mad because they torture us... makes no sense. I would much rather be able to say hey, international community, get in there and kick there asses for torturing our soldiers and not get the response You started it.
2007-06-19 09:49:14 · answer #1 · answered by Memnoch 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have no problem bringing violence to someone who understands it. People forget that torture and murder are a very intimate thing, between two people weather it lasts for 1 sec or 1 week. I do not believe in the torture of someone who is not capable of understanding such things, like children families parents women, etc. What the american public does not know is that torture has been a part of american history since this country was started and is in full practice today, just because you do not hear about it does not mean it isn't hnappening..
2007-06-19 09:48:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Torture is most always ineffective. One can get anyone to say anything under torture and they do. So if you believe so and so is working for Al Qaida, administer enough pain and sure enough, they will admit it. However, at that point, they will say anything to make the pain stop. It has a negative effect on world opinion. Also the Geneva Convention outlaws torture as a means of obtaining intelligence. Put these things together and you lose. I am not a peace nut by any means, but good intelligence is best gotten by assets, paid or not, in the theater of operations.
2007-06-19 09:56:22 · answer #3 · answered by agile006 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NATO has rules and laws for a reason and our following them as stringently as we have is really what has made the US what it is. I don't condone torture or the death penalty because there is no definitive way to prove anyone knows anything less knowing the information you were torturing them for in the first place. I know that I am going to get a lot of negativity for saying all of this but its important for people to realize what our country truly has done in the past few years. We have let a president basically re-write the constitution to his bidding and did it secretly for some time, in my state the very same is happening with taxing minorities and if we start torturing people we begin to compromise rules set in place for good reasons not only by us but by the world as a whole (UN).
2016-05-19 23:11:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think any person deserves to be tortured.. When it comes to war, I don't care who we're fighting, I don't believe any soldier deserves to be tortured for information, since they're just doing their job, which is to protect their country. It is an inhumane way of getting information, if they even have any information. Any person being tortured will come up with answers (true or false) to stop the pain. Especially if they REALLY don't have the information. They might come up with anything, so just how reliable is torture? How many people have to suffer, just to find that one person who actually does have information, and actually does crack?
2007-06-19 11:07:14 · answer #5 · answered by Word 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess when the terrorists cut heads off that is not torture. It only hurts till the pain goes away.
We drop a few drops of water on an animal and we have to hear about it. Go over there and tell them to stop strapping bombs to women and children and blowing them self's up along with the Innocent people. Then tell them about the heads they lob off.
2007-06-19 10:20:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You may get truth; but you also will get what the person thinks you want to hear just to stop the torture, whether it is the truth or not. And, how do you tell the difference? How do you know what's truth and what's not?
2007-06-19 09:47:18 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
torture is inefficient.
it doesn't produce good information and it has a terrible effect on world opinion. i'm sure someone's going to retort that world opinion is irrelevant--but that's not true. the reason we are as powerful as we are is because of the rest of the world. if they stop trading with you because of your torture policy, you're screwed.
so it doesn't reach it's desired goal, it has the opposite effect.
2007-06-19 09:43:34 · answer #8 · answered by brian 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
torture is an incredible truth serum
2007-06-19 09:42:27 · answer #9 · answered by sweetscience 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's wrong... End of story...
2007-06-19 10:20:26 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋