Are the following torture tactics in your opinion?

Question

Sensory deprivation?
Sleep deprivation?
Exposure to extreme cold or heat?
Prolonged exposure to bright lights?
Prolonged solitary confinement?
Prolonged exposure to blaring music?
Putting bamboo shoots under fingernails?
Burning with cigarettes?

Answer 1

No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Waterboarding - No
Truth agents - No
Abu Gahrib - No (stupid, but not torture)
GITMO - A country club compared to what they media would have you believe.

To all of you maniacs who said that the first 6 were torture, I would love to hear what you WOULD call acceptable interrogation techniques.

wyldfyr...There are 3 types of lies...lies, damn lies, and statistics. Torture has been shown to be ineffective, but who's definition of torture did they use in the study? If I were to start pulling out toe nails, and salting the wound, and then get worse, you would give me any information that I was looking for. I am not saying that is what should be done, but to say that "torture doesn't work" is a crock. And from what you have written, I guarantee that your definition of torture and mine are very different. Waterboarding is a GOOD INTERROGATION technique. It is INSANE that it is banned in the Geneva Convention, and the very fact that terrorists are NOT part of the Geneva Convention is a GOOD THING!

Answer 2

Sensory deprivation?
Sleep deprivation?
Exposure to extreme cold or heat?
Prolonged exposure to bright lights?
Prolonged solitary confinement?
Prolonged exposure to blaring music?
Putting bamboo shoots under fingernails?
Burning with cigarettes?

That sounds like my life except for the last two. Still, if it's done to someone without their consent then yes, it's torture.

Answer 3

Actually I amaze myself here but as above stated I agree, our current frat hazing policies are far more violent than US methods of "torture" on record. So far only 3 individuals received water boarding and it was suspended back in 2003. Fear. But perhaps the fear of being be headed works better in other regions? The United States has a moral obligation to maintain higher standards- Senator John McCain. We do. This debate is way over played. Yet during a Presidential election season one can expect no less.

Answer 4

The last two are definitely torture. The rest can be torture except for solitary confinement and possibly sensory deprivation. Everything else can cause lasting physical harm, even lack of sleep.

Answer 5

See, lower back, it relies upon on your definition of torture. not one of the techniques in the leaked memos qualify as torture. They DO reason disorientation and soreness. it quite is a a techniques cry from inflicting severe, debilitating soreness to somebody. in accordance with what i've got heard, and consider, no. no person ought to be indicted. If the Obama administration pursues this, it is going to blow up of their faces. assured.

Answer 6

Only some are these two in particular

Putting bamboo shoots under fingernails?
Burning with cigarettes?

Answer 7

Definetely in one of my trips to Mexico I went to this Jail in Veracruz where the punishments were like you had a cell where you couldn't stad up...instead of bathroom you had a bucket that they wouldn't take in 2 weeks and for the real bad people they would keep them standing up and 3 drops of water would fall on their head every 3 seconds..these was a real bad torture and some people actually went crazy 'cause after a while they would feel like the water was cutting through their scull.

Answer 8

Except for the sensory derivation, and bamboo shoots, it sounds like a day in the life of Gene Simmons.

Answer 9

Yes. Most of those practices can lead to permanent disability and death. They, along with waterboading are prohibited by the Geneva convention. As signatories to the Geneva Convention, we lose all integrity and any moral high ground by resorting to these illegal tactics. Torture has been proved to be ineffective in getting reliable information. Eventually there will be justice for those who are being held. Obtaining confessions through torture could lead to the guilty being released.

Answer 10

yes to everything but exposure to blaring music- i like prolonged exposure to blaring music.

edit: acutually, sensory deprivation would be pretty rad- you usually have to pay lots of money for an hour in a sensory-dep tank... apparently it's free, if you're a terrorist