Should Torture Be Allowed To Keep Us Alive Persuasive Essay

Some of us are always told to never give up, to always fight for what we believe. But sometimes giving up is our only option, it is the only thing that will keep us alive. In “Cesare Beccaria, on Torture, of Crimes and Punishments, 1764,” we see how by torturing people they give up and declare themselves guilty. Torture should not be something that should be part of questioning because when a person is tortured they cannot handle any more pain so they tell the people that are torturing them what they want to hear in order to stop them from hurting them anymore. Throughout history, torture has been one of the many ways people have used to have others confess their crimes but what many of us never consider is that sometimes innocent people declare
themselves guilty. As stated by Beccaria people should not be declared guilty before a verdict has happened. Because often times people are tortured so much that they cannot keep fighting the pain and they give up by declaring themselves guilty when really they never committed the crime. This makes sense in many ways, but also declares the innocent guilty of something that they never committed as well as causes them more torture than the one that they already received, which happens because they gave up because not many options were offered. It is amazing that this is a tactic that has been used by people all throughout history in order to stop their attackers from torturing them any further. In the end we need to know when it is our time to give up.