Analysis: Is Torture Ever Justified?

Is torture ever justified? This question response automatically comes the way one may perceive torture or defines torture’s meaning. In a number of dictionaries torture is defined as, “extreme pain; anguish of body or mind, or the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge as a means of getting a confession for information”. In layman’s terms, torture is just sheer cruelty and in no way morally right, not permissible, or in no situation justified. Slavery would be a situation leading to a form of torture. To take someone from the only family, home, and in some cases, sanity they might have in a blink of an eye is morally unjustified. Imagine waking up one day with your whole world being shattered beyond disbelief and being
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum overview of the killing centers displays:
The Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder. Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, killing centers (also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were almost exclusively "death factories." German SS and police murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting.
The Diary of Anne Frank was a book written by a young girl, who was in hiding from the Nazis, captured and taken to a concentration camp where she kept detailed notes on her life during this process. An insight of a fifteen year old who had dreams of becoming a journalist wrote in her diary: Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
During war or potential terrorist attacks would be a common answer a person would give in response to this question. The September Eleventh attacks, often referred to as “9/11” (pronounced “nine eleven”), were a series of suicidal attacks on the United States by al-Qaeda. On that morning, al-Qaeda terrorist hijacked four commercial airplanes and intentionally crashing two of them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many other workers in the building (CQ Homeland Security). Until this event, the words “terrorist” and “torture” were not your common topics in an everyday conversation. Ten years later, this event can be remembered as vividly as if it happened yesterday. Torturing a terrorist poses one question, will any information that a person gives while being tortured be the right information? A person who is experiencing extreme pain will say anything to stop the pain, whether it is true or not. People will confess to crimes they have not committed, and throw out any information that pops in their heads in order to stop the torture. Leading to false information, we are led on wide goose chases that waste time and expend resources. The thing we Americans put above these monsters called “torturers” are the high value we put on Bill of Rights, human rights, and our freedoms. We should not lower our moral ideals to the point where we are no