Aysha Meeks COM 125 Dr. Lasser 26 April 2010 The Debate on Torture: Should It Be Permissible The act of legalizing torture has been a debate amongst people for a long time. Most people feel discomfort imagining someone being tortured‚ whether under any circumstance‚ however‚ there are those who feel that torture can be beneficial to the government‚ in the most extreme cases‚ seeking information. For example‚ after the events of 9/11‚ where al Qaeda terrorists hijacked commercial airplanes
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Should the Government allow Torture? The issue of the government legalizing torture is being very current and has brought a lot of debate between those who are against it‚ those who think that it sometimes can be used for good‚ and those who are between. But first what exactly is torture? It can be defined as the act of inflicting pain as a punishment or revenge to try and acquire some sort of confession about a particular issue or information. The importance of this is in the idea
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but there was torture and terror involved which some people argue that torture is far worse than just being given the death penalty. So is being tortured actually worse than just being given the death penalty? The importance of considering this question is that if torture is worse than the death penalty then the death penalty would be a lesser punishment and any punishment “above or below what would be acceptable for the crime committed would be immoral because it does not
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Torture In the article “The Truth about Torture”‚ Charles Krauthammer considers the ticking time bomb problem and argues that torture is sometimes not only morally permissible‚ but morally necessary. Krauthammer uses the example of terrorists in his example‚ what if we captured a terrorist with knowledge of an attack and the knowledge of future attacks; do we torture him for his information? Or simply just have him locked up? (Krauthammer 2). Utilitarian considerations are sufficient to justify
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Torture: Right or Wrong Jennifer Lopez April 22‚ 2013 Ustick 7 US History Lopez 1 Torture: Right or Wrong Torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering‚ whether physical or mental‚ is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession‚ punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed‚ or intimidating or coercing him or a third person‚ or
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Is torture ever acceptable? According to the UN Convention Against Torture‚ any infliction of torture1 i.e. waterboarding is banned under international law and the domestic laws of most countries in the 21st century. The point of contention is whether torture under any circumstances should be entirely prohibited. This opinion piece will be centered towards the debate regarding interrogation using torture methods and argue that torture is never acceptable from the moral and utilitarian perspectives
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Tierra Mason Professor Colin Anderson 15 November 2011 Is Torture Ever Justifiable? Torture‚ according to the United Nations Convention against Torture‚ is: “any act by which severe pain or suffering‚ whether physical or mental‚ is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him‚ or a third person‚ information or a confession‚ punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed‚ or intimidating or coercing him
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Griffin Eng. 093 March 23‚ 2012 Torture: Justified or Unjustified? Is torture justified? Does it make us feel safer? Most Americans would say that it is immoral to torture any human being for any reason. There are a few people left who would disagree with that and say that some deserve to be tortured in order to obtain information that could potentially save the lives of hundreds or thousands. According to Michael Levin torture may seem unconstitutional or barbaric to some but
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send a message. Torture also has been used militarily‚ as a way to potentially extract useful information out of enemy soldiers. There have even been some who torture others merely for personal pleasure. Yet now‚ as we enter the 21st century‚ we somehow have the same attitudes towards torture as our ancestors thousands of years ago. Have we learned nothing from centuries of this barbaric act? Surely our modern minds can come to a conclusive perspective on torture. Proponents of torture argue that it
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the utilization of torture and its effectiveness as a means to elicit information. A main argument has been supplied that torture is ineffective in its purpose to gather information from the victim. The usefulness of torture has been questioned because prisoners might use false information to elude their torturers‚ which has occurred in previous cases of torture. It has also been supposed that torture is necessary in order to use the information to save many lives. Torture has been compared to
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