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    Legalizing Torture Analysis

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    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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    To most‚ torture is seen as action with a single definition that defines it‚ but in fact there are different types of torture that Henry Shue discusses in one of his articles. According to Shue there are rare conditions under which torture could be morally justified‚ but he does not endorse neither the interrogational torture not the terroristic torture. Although Shue agrees with illegality and morally wrongness of torture‚ he explains how one may go about defending torture and how it could possibly

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    Arguments Against Torture

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    Torture can be justified if it serves the greater good’ critically discuss this statement with reference to human rights theories. Torture‚ and consequently its definition‚ has changed through time. A Roman lawyer once stated‚ ‘torture is the inquiry after truth by means of torment’ (cited in Peters‚ 1985). This definition is the foundation for the understanding of torture in modern times. It is now looked at not only in terms of physical pain‚ but mental stress and damage as well‚ (ScienceDaily

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    A Right Against Torture?

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    against torture‚ and how you would try to meet the main objections to such a proposed right. This essay sets out to deal with the very important issues raised by the practice of torture in today’s society. More precisely‚ the point of this paper is to defend a right against torture‚ of which all people should benefit‚ and not just any kind of right‚ but one of an absolute nature. In order to deal with these issues the essay will firstly justify why and absolute right against torture is mandatory

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    Should Torture Be Allowed

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    being waged over these rights is whether torture should be an acceptable method to extract information from terrorists‚ kidnappers‚ etc. Torture should be a usable legal practice when science fails and time is against the situation in order to gain valuable intel‚ however it should not go without intervention from the legal system. Tortures most useful perk is that it can be used to extract important knowledge about possible security threats. In a world

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    Why Torture Is Wrong

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    Torture is the action or practice of someone in authority intentionally inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment‚ whether it be physical or psychological in order to force them to do or say something. Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ article 5 states that‚ “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel‚ inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Torture corrodes the rule of law and undermines the criminal justice system‚ it is barbaric and inhumane. However‚ over the

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    Should Torture Be Allowed or Not The issue of torture is being very current and it arouses debate between those who are totally against it; those who think that it sometimes can be used for good; and those who are in between. The idea of torture was seen only as something that happened far away in time‚ and it should not even be considered as an issue of the modern society. Furthermore‚ torture was seen as a violation of the fundamental human rights‚ which were protected by different human rights

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    Daniela West Mr. Sandarg English 1102 23 March 2012 Torture Imagine being taken by someone you do not know‚ and questioned ferociously about events that you are not aware of. You are questioned of these things because of who an acquaintance of yours is or by the location you just happened to be in at that moment. When you do not know anything that you are questioned of‚ these same people that took you are now using “enhanced interrogation techniques” upon you. These “enhanced interrogation techniques”

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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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    Why Torture Is Important

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    September 11th 2001‚ the laws on torture have been at dispute in democracy. If there was a way to prevent the September 11th attacks then America should do anything in their power to get the information to save innocent lives of their citizens. Furthermore‚ intelligence is needed to find out who is responsible for these attacks. To get the needed intelligence we must have somebody that knows what happened and a way to extract the information. This is where torture would come into play. There are various

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