Everyone is making such a big deal about the possibility terrorists are being tortured. so what? boo hoo. why cant we torture them? they want to kill us and destroy our country. all we want is some information and justice. what happened to eye for an eye? this isnt even that. this is eye for attempted murder. there getting off easy.
2007-10-06 14:40:08 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Because the 8th amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
2007-10-06 14:44:52 · answer #1 · answered by Mandy 6 · 9⤊ 4⤋
If we torture the enemy they will torture our captured solders.(but they do it anyway) They have also found that information under torture is false, the guy wants you to stop, he'd tell you anything when his balls are in a vise. We are supposed to be better then them, but they don't abide by the Geneva Convention or conventional rules of engagement. I think the bigger questions are: How do we fight an enemy that has no morals, boundaries, or regard for human life? -and- When is our soft, politically correct, self deprecating perspective going to finish off our chances in this war?!?!?
2007-10-06 15:02:41 · answer #2 · answered by V3g 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The reason is that we are not supposed to be terrorists. What they have done to us and continue to do to us is despicable to no end but unfortunetly being just as despicable to them will not help us "Win" as that will only drive more and more people to their cause, including people in this country already. The entire world is watching the way we handle this and if we degrade into a violent and most importantly INHUMANE society than we will lose. In that same token we are really fighting to stop it over there too. Saddam used to tie peoples hands to ceiling fans in the secret prisons in Iraq and twist their bodies until their spines broke just for speaking out against him. Or smash their childrens heads on the wall of the cells. Or even drag them out of their houses and shoot them in the street in front of their neighbors to make an example of them. We are fighting so that never happens again. Here we are able to whine about our leaders to no end with no fear of even a night in jail (provided we dont hurt anyone in the process) The whole world deserves that right. Even people we percieve as less than us. If we torture we are just perpetuating the system Saddam had in place and why would the Iraq citizens trust us then? I dont remember the article I read about the torture in. If you search, you will find.
2007-10-06 14:50:47 · answer #3 · answered by Oxy B 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The only problem is how do we know they are Terroists? The prisons are filed with many people who are innocent. It is all a matter of who can get a good lawyer to get them off.
Until we can make sure that they are in fact guilty than maybe we could use torture. It is also known that torture in interrogations mostly comes up with false statements.
2007-10-06 14:49:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because we are better then that
Republicans keep telling me that America is a Christian nation and then they keep wanting to act as if it is not.
If you are a Christian you know that Jesus replaced "an eye for an eye" with "turn the other cheek" So your "eye" argument is false.
Further while there is some justification to torture for information, there is no connection between torture and justice so please do not equate the two.
The other question is are you Man enough to lose your humanity to get information. because a torturer is a monster there is no way around it.
I doubt you could, I have read your other questions and you like most are wind in the air, piling nonsense upon nonsense with no form or frame to back up what you say
2007-10-06 14:48:47 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas G 6 · 7⤊ 3⤋
Because torture does nothing but put us on the level of our enemies. Because valid information is rarely gotten.
Because it says we are brutal, and inhuman.
If it worked, I'd be all for it, but it doesn't.
How would you feel if that possible terrorist turned out not to be, but under torture he said yes to anything they asked?
I'm not too sure if you understand that we used to be a moral country, we used to have standards of civilized behavior that stood us in good stead through civil wars, revolutionary wars, two world wars, a couple of police actions and Viet Nam and the first Gulf War.
Now, all of a sudden, we must lower ourselves to their level its the only way, we are told to get information. So what did they do before that?
We are signatory to the Geneva Convention, if we are going rogue on this we expose our troops to the same unspeakable behavior.
The men who served in this administration are all against torture, its only the chicken hawks who want to make it some perversion of legal.
2007-10-06 14:49:08 · answer #6 · answered by justa 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
1) How do you know if an individual has been falsely accused? Would you be able to effectively calm your conscience at the thought of having wrongly tortured a fellow man?
2) It is inhumane to torture. As a civilization, we cannot but abhor such behavior under any circumstances.
It frightens me to read all of the answers in favor of torture. Sadism should stay in the bedroom, where it belongs!
2007-10-06 14:44:31 · answer #7 · answered by nondescript 4 · 6⤊ 3⤋
When the plot to blow up commercial airliners flying out of England over the Atlantic was uncovered in Saudi Arabia a while back - I am confident the information obtained from the detainees was not the result of casual conversation over tea and biscuits.
The reality is that these Islamic militants want to kill innocent people and all who question their beliefs. Their tactics are barbaric and their blood lust knows no boundaries.
In my humble opinion, the idealistic opinion that these dirt bags should receive human rights should start immediately upon their acting like humans.
2007-10-06 14:59:17 · answer #8 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" - Article 5, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." - Amendment 8, United States Constitution
Torturing anyone - especially people who HAVE NOT BEEN PROVEN to be terrorists in many cases - is a clear violation of the principles upon which our nation was founded. It is the behavior of barbarians, not of civilized beings.
2007-10-06 14:58:52 · answer #9 · answered by triviatm 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
My god, why the obsession with torturing?
And isn't this an "everybody does it anyway" question? In the end, everyone tortures, big deal.
2007-10-06 20:03:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's funny. I find that you and all the other pro-torture people who really can't begin to understand why torture is unacceptable (and it scares me that it has to be explained to you) have the most excruciating grammar and spelling. Perhaps they teach you why torture is wrong in 10th grade and most conservatives haven't yet made it there?
What do you think Jesus would have thought about torture?
2007-10-06 14:52:32 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋