Evaluating Violence When deciding whether violence is ethical or justified‚ there are several factors that must be considered. There is not a simple answer to any scenario and each scenario must be evaluated carefully and thoroughly. Torture has proven to be an extremely effective tool so putting an all out ban on it would have quite a few repercussions‚ especially in the war on terror. Could the United States really justify losing access to terrorist information in order to be more humane?
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conducted through rights such as the presence of counsel and right against self-incrimination. Despite the measures put to guide interrogation procedures‚ interrogation techniques have evolved from establishing a rapport with the suspect to outright torture. However‚ effective interrogation techniques should obtain the required information while preserving the rights of the suspect. Most of the 19th century was marred by use of interrogation techniques that exerted brutal force on their subjects while
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punishment also known as the death penalty uses techniques that undermine humanity. When undertaking capital punishment‚ the process involves hanging‚ firing bullets‚ slaughter‚ inducing death through drugs and any other way causes psychological torture and physical pain. Humanity requires that people treat others with dignity they deserve even when they have done mistakes. Capital punishment does not have any form of dignity. The whole process functions more of a revenge rather than punishment.
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people die. People should be able to get answers out of the terrorists before there is another attack. EIT was originally made post 9-11 because there were detainees still out there that had answers on how and why 9-11 occurred. The U.N defines torture as a way people get answers from detainees. The CIA would use harmful techniques to figure out what someone did‚ and how they did it (“5 Interrogation Methods”). One of the techniques used to get out answers was waterboarding. People are put on the
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conducted through rights such as the presence of counsel and right against self-incrimination. Despite the measures put to guide interrogation procedures‚ interrogation techniques have evolved from establishing a rapport with the suspect to outright torture. However‚ effective interrogation techniques should obtain the required information while preserving the rights of the suspect. Most of the 19th century was marred by use of interrogation techniques that exerted brutal force on their
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Starting in 2004‚ reports of physical‚ psychological and sexual abuse including torture‚ rape‚ sodomy‚ waterboarding (“a prisoner is strapped to a board‚ or submerged‚ or held down and forced to breathe through a water-soaked cloth held over his mouth. All waterboarding produces the physical sensation of drowning and a psychological sensation of panic‚ fear and loss of control[1]”) and homicide of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib become known to the public eye. The acts were committed by members of the
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the girl maimed and nearly blind after being interrogated and tortured by the ruthless Colonel Joll‚ and takes her in. The Magistrate’s relationship with the girl revolves around his search for the girl’s significance; he questions her about her torture‚ he attempts to understand her through her physical surface‚ and tries to use her as the key to unlocking his own meaning. Ultimately‚ the Magistrate’s treatment of the barbarian girl mirrors her treatment by Colonel Joll; they both use her as a tool
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anti-terrorist information that could possibly save thousands of innocent Americans. The ‘greatest good for the greatest number’‚ so they say‚ but is torture really the best way to obtain the best consequence? I will use my take on the Just War model and J.J.C Smarts’ suggestion to focus on all consequences of a situation to argue against the notion that water torture would be morally ethical and the right thing that I ought to do. Guantanamo Bay is a US prison for terrorists and other threatening people
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the tortures of Roger Chillingworth‚ ate away at his physical being and mental state‚ causing much greater suffering than Hester’s public shame of the scarlet letter. Much of the suffering‚ physical and mental‚ that Arthur Dimmesdale endures is self-inflicted due to the immense weight of his guilty conscience. Fearing that he would not be able to bear the punishment from the public‚ he chose to remain anonymous in his sins. In doing so‚ he underestimated the amount of psychological torture and
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John Locke Vs. Bernard Williams In this essay‚ I will be explaining John Locke’s case of the prince and the cobbler and Bernard Williams’s second description of the A-body person and the B-body person. Bernard Williams has the correct analysis of the situation where the body is part of self-identity since it is inevitable for us to fear future pain. John Locke claims that memory is the key to identity‚ so “as far [as] someone’s memory goes‚ is so far the identity of the person.” (Campbell) First
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