What is the definition of torture?
And if you answer "No" would you allow yourself to be subjected to these practices?
...be honest. No bravado here, get your head in the space of being awake for 48 hours, cold, hungry and perhaps upside down with a canvas bag over your head, not sure whether or not you will be drowned. Perhaps inundated with audio propaganda, sounds of screaming and agony around you, horrendous images being flashed before your eyes,
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2007-11-02 06:50:13 · 10 answers · asked by loudwalker 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Yes it is.
2007-11-02 06:59:17 · answer #1 · answered by gone 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Sure. So is being forced to watch an endless loop of the primary debates.
Torture has degrees. Listening to the Osmonds for 16 hours is torture, but not nearly as bad as even a minute of waterboarding, which is as nothing compared to having your testicles removed with a spoon.
Take the Abu Graib photo scandal. Unquestionably abuse, yet, there was nothing in those pictures that you couldn't find being done to men in San Francisco - it's just that the guys in SF were paying $100/hr for the privilege of the experience.
I don't think there's a clear line between a level of physical abuse or psychological distress that is reasonable for a state to use in time of war to gather information and a level of the same that is barbaric toruture that should never be done for any reason.
It is good, though, that we live in a free society, where these topics can be debated, and we can decide how far we're willing to go down an amoral path in persuit of victory or security. And, if we don't go far enough down that path, we can at least die knowing that we're morally superior to the guys decapiting us.
2007-11-02 07:03:51 · answer #2 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
YES YES, YES if one wants to know if something is torture don't you think the people who have to endure it should be the one to decide if something is torture and not politics? I have suffered sleep deprivation for two days. I could sleep as I was traveling and no where to sleep and spent most of it sitting in chairs or walking around. Once I spent outside for one night, cold, wet and couldn't sleep and had some health problems to boot, let me tell you that wasn't nearly as horrible as torture but it was enough for me to not want it to be repeated. so yes all those mentioned things are severe torture.
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2007-11-02 08:03:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone saying NO, I hope one day that you are exposed to this "non-torture", whether or not we know you did anything wrong.
If you torture anyone, regardless of guilt or knowledge, they tell you anything to stop torture. Even if they have to make it up. If you torture the wrong person and they give you fabricated information to appease your torture, then you have poor intelligence. What good has torturing our soldiers done in the war? Exactly.
2007-11-02 07:58:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-10 01:43:03 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's too bad Saddam Hussein and his two sons aren't still around to describe what torture was like when they were in charge. If anything, the Husseins were inventive when it came to new ways to create human suffering.
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/silenced/torture.htm
2007-11-02 07:50:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't want to be subjected to it, but I don't have any information about people who ram planes into buildings, or blow up troop carriers on the streets of Bagdad, or plant bombs in railroad terminals either. If the "torture" of one man can save the lives of many - I'm for it. My opinion (and I'm sure I'll be lambasted for it) is that some of our own criminals who've kidnapped, tortured, and murdered and then hidden the bodies of their victims - should be pumped full of truth serum and made to talk. If they haven't done anything wrong, then no harm no foul - but if they have, it would sure help some grieving people. I lean towards mercy - but NOT in the case of terrorists or their friends.
2007-11-02 07:01:02 · answer #7 · answered by Kelly T 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
All of them are torture and are on a list that you can find on Amnesty Internationals web site. they also have a lot on countries that practice such methods of torture and campaign against them.
2007-11-02 07:26:10 · answer #8 · answered by BUST TO UTOPIA 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No way that stuff isn't torture.
It doesn't happen just for the sake of it happening.
Once the jihadi breaks and gives the info, it stops. The longer they try to resist the more uncomfortable they become. Plus, these things are applied to enemy combatants that are not subject to the Geneva conventions, do not follow the laws of war and target non combatants for shock value and terror.
Why would I allow myself to be subjected to such things, I'm not an enemy combatant operating outside of the laws of war or Geneva conventions.
2007-11-02 06:58:04 · answer #9 · answered by csn0331 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I think it is torture.....and a civilized nation would not do such things.. that is after all, what we fight against other nations for. Thanks to Bush... we have stooped to the level of the terrorists...
2007-11-02 07:25:56 · answer #10 · answered by Debra H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋