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2007-10-31 07:44:09 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
What would YOU do?
2007-10-31 07:44:56 · update #1
pip you went to all that trouble to "teach" me how to ask a question, then didn't answer. Unbelievable.
2007-10-31 07:55:25 · update #2
It is not torture. It is not comfortable but not painful and permanently damaging. I'd use any method if it was a matter of someone in my family or country being in serious danger. Those who think it is also think forcing one to listen to loud rap is torture too. Peace
2007-10-31 08:04:15 · answer #1 · answered by PARVFAN 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
You may want to consider that those who understand waterboarding, torture and other forms of interrogation are extremely reluctant to discuss specifics in an open forum.
Most won't discuss specifics under ANY circumstances.
Torture is generally unreliable for extracting reliable information from an individual. Most reliable combatants have SOME training regarding how to survive torture and interrogation techniques.
Most effective forms of interrogation take a long time. Psyops is a special field and the subject should be left alone by the uninitiated.
2007-10-31 08:00:47 · answer #2 · answered by Ed Harley 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Maybe you didn't ask the question correctly for the answer you wanted?
Yes, waterboarding is torture.
"Article 32. A protected person/s shall not have anything done to them of such a character as to cause physical suffering or extermination ... the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishments, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment' While popular debate remains on what constitutes a legal definition of torture (see discussion on the Torture page), the ban on corporal punishment simplifies the matter; even the most mundane physical abuse is thereby forbidden by Article 32, as a precaution against alternate definitions of torture."
2007-10-31 08:00:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not a very good question. Kind of like
"If wishes were horses would everyone ride?"
You tried to qualify your way into a certain answer by putting such a stereotypical and unlikely scenario around it that people jumped on the question, instead.
2007-10-31 08:10:56 · answer #4 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I am all for interrogation. But I would not want to send a squad or platoon to a location this individual provided if he just provided me information to satisfy his fear. Those assets would be unavailable should we need them in the short term. I don't concider water boarding as dangerous as a prat prank, heck we do more to our own students in liberal colleges as far as physical and mental harm during hell week. But if waterboarding is listed as torture then eliminate it.
2007-10-31 07:53:51 · answer #5 · answered by rance42 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is torture. What would I do? A good truth serum and then question. I do know this. If I were being tortured I would tell the torturer any piece of B.S. I could to make it stop. I do not feel torture is right. I don't think it is an efficient action for gathering reliable information.
pip I like the last paragraph. So true.
2007-10-31 07:52:18 · answer #6 · answered by gone 7 · 7⤊ 3⤋
You should alter the format of your question. The way it is formulated implies you want to make a statement rather than ask a question, which will in turn receive responses that make a statement as well.
Maybe something like is water boarding an effective interrogation technique? And maybe a more broad question(s) of Does torture give reliable information? and How should torture be defined?
Now, to answer your question... if it gets to the point where we only have moments to get information to save millions, we've already lost that battle.. so I would work on our intelligence so as to prevent ourselves from falling into that type of situation.
.... Edit.... Um... this last paragraph clearly answers your question of "What would you do".. I wouldn't allow it to come to that point. Just because it's not the answer you want doesn't mean it's not a clear answer to your question... that was the question I assumed you wanted answered.. if it was the "is this torture" question you wanted answered instead then I'll answer that for you now. I haven't decided if I think it's torture or not. Drowning (and the fear there of) is a terrible thing.. and is definitely torture... but at the same time these people know they aren't going to drown.... so I struggle on defining this practice. At the same time.. I don't doubt we do things much more horrific than water boarding.... Maybe we should focus on them instead... but that's just my opinion.
2007-10-31 07:52:14 · answer #7 · answered by pip 7 · 8⤊ 5⤋
DON'T BE THICK-Clarify your question. When you ask something rhetorical people will mess with you in return. If water-boarding a single maniac bent on killing thousands makes him give up information-why not? The fact it bothers you scares the hell out of me! Hey, the blood of many will be on your hands as well...
2007-10-31 07:58:33 · answer #8 · answered by Dan K 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Maybe it is...
You really don't want to know what I would do to save my fellow countrymen....let's just say waterboarding would be classified as a day at the spa in comparison.
I simply have no sympathy for people who will saw off the heads of their captives on video and send it out to be watched....they deserve what they get.
2007-10-31 08:10:41 · answer #9 · answered by Erinyes 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes it is torture and any of you that condone it are seriously f'd in the head. It's a sad that fellow so-called Americans have stooped so low.
2007-10-31 08:37:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
What kind of answer to this ridiculous question?
'24' is not real.
Waterboarding is torture. How many of you clamoring that it is not torture have actually endured it?
To all that claim there are varying degrees of torture: what the hell kind of country are we?
We claim individual rights and freedoms but we'll strap you down and pour water down your throat if we don't like the look of you?
We'll hook your various body parts up to a battery and allow an electric current to course through your body?
Attack dogs, sleep deprivation, humiliating acts of a sexual nature?
This stuff is okay because we're DEFENDING freedom?
How is any of this **** defending anything?
Trying to justify torture is sick.
2007-10-31 08:03:23 · answer #11 · answered by LatexSolarBeef 4 · 4⤊ 4⤋