the Use Torture Ever Justified? According time in the follow Asian‚ Middle East and other countries have used torture as a tool of murder for over two thousand years. Dictators believed that torture is a way to rule their country. “Is torture ever justified?” this question was asked on ABC News in 2004. In that poll sixty three percent of respondent believed that torture should be abolished‚ thirty one percent agreed with torture but with limits‚ and seven percent agree torture without
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Can the Use of Torture be Justified? This report aims to‚ in the first instance‚ define torture. It then examines the history of torture and looks at international law that relates to torture. The main part of the study analyses ethical theories in relation to torture and uses these ethical viewpoints to examine whether or not torture can be justified in any circumstances. In addition‚ the Algerian War and the Iraq War will be used as case studies to further discuss the ethical issues surrounding
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2008 President Obama signed an executive order prohibition use of torture by the U.S. Military and CIA. In 2016‚ the use of torture became a topic during the Presidential election when then-candidate now President Donald Trump suggested it should be used against the Islamic State. This creates a big argument that if Military should be allowed to use torture against terrorists or should not be allowed. Some people believed that torture should not be allowed in any country but what if this is the only
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Torture is practiced in more than 90% of all countries in all regions of the world‚ big or small‚ dictatorship or democracy. Torture was a legitimate way to obtain testimonies and confessions from suspects for use in legal inquiries and trials. "What strikes us most in considering the medieval tortures is not so much their diabolical barbarity as the extraordinary variety‚ and what may be termed the artistic skill‚ they displayed. They represent a condition of thought in which men had pondered long
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Torture (Latin torquere‚ "to twist")‚ in law‚ infliction of severe bodily pain either as punishment‚ or to compel a person to confess to a crime‚ or to give evidence in a judicial proceeding. Among primitive peoples‚ torture has been used as a means of ordeal and to punish captured enemies. Examination by torture‚ often called the "question‚" has been used in many countries as a judicial method. It involves using instruments to extort evidence from unwilling witnesses. In ancient Athens‚ slaves
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uncertainty in our society and violent acts to establish justice. Some cases such as the Prison in Guantanamo where many terrorists were sadistic torture to get information and dismantle this group that committed many crimes against society. The Bush administration used torture as an interrogation tactic. Despite President Bush negated the accusation of this immoral interrogation‚ former vice president Cheney affirmed the use of torture was a legal‚ essential‚
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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
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Pacheco 1 Daniel Pacheco November 10‚ 2016 Dr Jay English 201A Torture is Acceptable Have you ever thought why we have used torture ? Torture is defined as the intentional use of physical or physiological pain to gain advantage over a person or group of individuals. Torture has been around since the 146 BC‚ that’s the time Ancient Greece began and torture is still around today. We hear about torture every day‚ through the TV‚ news‚ social media‚ and/or online articles yet we do not pay attention
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Definition of Torture The definition of torture is the “Deliberate‚ systematic‚ cruel and wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more torturers in an attempt to force another person to give up information‚ to make a confession‚ as part of a punishment or for any other reason.” Torture devices are tools used to inflict unbearable agony on a victim. The objectives of torture were to intimidate‚ or punish‚ Or as a tool or a method for the extraction of information or confessions
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experienced torturers are available only if torture is institutionalised. 3. Torture by unskilled and inexperienced torturers is always unjustified. 4. However‚ institutionalising torture has very bad consequences; it will mean that torture will metastasise instead of being limited to one-off cases. 5. Conclusion: Torture is never justified (one should never torture). This can be an additional argument for the theory of deontology‚ as are we professional tortures? Nowadays‚ a lot of the governments in
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