Zimbardo Use Of Torture

Torture is inhumane, most countries should outlaw it even our own, the science of torture has evolved through war over time most militaries have adopted these techniques like waterboarding, chinese water torture,etc.. Most of these techniques were made from the technology of the ages so why do we still follow old torture traditions if there are new psychology was that prove just as effective and more humane.

Zimbardo one of the first psychologist who studied prison affects and the power of authority in prison environments and found out that people that pose of higher authority (prison guards) usually harass and harm the lower authority. (Inmates) His discovery lead to how people in prisons are treated and it helped
His techniques showed the world how to treat prisoners without using traditional techniques of torture and inhumane punishments. His techniques for negotiations did not involve physical or mental abuse and instead takes a more friendly approach. His tactics started by getting the prisoner off guard by a friendly approach and starting a conversation with the prisoner. In the article Eliciting Intelligence Using the Scharff-Technique:Closing in on the Confirmation/Disconfirmation-Tactic by Lennart May and some other scientist they discovered and explain Scharffs techniques that were used in World War Two, his first tactic was to become as friendly and start up a conversation which he was already a good talker and person which he stayed in contact with some of the prisoners through the rest of his life. The next tactic was not pressing information by this the Article states that he rarely asked any few or no questions at all. Both Tactics formed the basic foundation of the Scharff-Technique. The next and sort of last tactic is lie well sort of it is more of a white lie, he explains it as an illusion by knowing it all. Scharff typically opened the conversation by stating that it was unlikely that the prisoner would be able to offer any new information beyond what is already knew. This is a very long explanation of
None of these studies except Hanns Scharff`s have not been studied why we need to torture and not just have a conservation with trickery and deceitfulness instead of torturing people that may or may not have anything to do with what is happening between countries and have no information about the topic in hand therefore will be tortured until death because of the lack of information that they have.Most people are just pons playing in a king's battle that have no information even if they joined their