Pros And Cons Of Torture

In addition to everything mentioned, besides the physical pain that torture causes, the pain that cannot be reverted are the psychological effects that last forever not only to the individuals being torture, but also on the one that is inflicting it that is why torture needs to be outlawed. Torture is a doubled edge sword, while some believe that torture aids national security it has been proven that has not been the case. What are the outcome of torture, “not only does it humiliate those who suffer it, it also brutalizes those who inflict it and those who tolerate it, torture represents a worse invasion of our humanity than killing or even murder” (Kleinig 7). Ultimately, the torturer ends up a victim too, because the brutalities they have

They are a lot of scenarios used to defend torture one of them is the ‘ticking bomb’, “they want to argue that it would be right to inflict torture in these circumstances, and not merely that those who inflict it should be held blameless” (Kleinig 8). The argument is that there are certain events that you need to fight evil with evil and torture is unavoidable. Those apposed argue that there are other ways to achieve what is needed without breaking any laws or abusing human rights. In Hoffman article “A Nasty Business” he expresses that he is against torture but after an interviewed by someone who had to use torture, he came to understand that “sometimes in bad circumstances good people have to do bad things” (Hoffman 4). After the 9/11 events which were painful and unfortunate for the U.S government and its citizens Hoffman’s quote could make sense to many but, unfortunately there were more victims to pay for what had occurred on that sorrowful day. The cost of false confessions is one thing that is not made public, but in Johnson article “The Strategic Cost of Torture” he mentions that it costed three trillion dollars to invade Iraq and most importantly thousands of American and Iraqi lives. That is a great deal of money used to help fight something that up till this

There is nothing to gain from torturing someone, specially someone who was ready to die, but there is a lot to lose from it. One of the immense loss is that of human life, dignity, respect and most importantly allies. The main reason to excuse torture has always been the retrieval of valuable information, but it has been determined that is not the case. In fact, it’s been known that anyone will reveal what is asked of them if it means that the pain will stop, therefore giving invalid information, wouldn’t you? Anyone that approves torture isolates themselves from their allies. How can a country maintain their dignity and respect if they contradict themselves by allowing torture while fighting against terrorism? Torture needs to be banned if the U.S wants to remain the great country that it is consequently it needs to lead by example. No one can predict if by refraining from the use of torture, others will too, but what is for sure is that by engrossing it others will follow. Sodomizing with blunt objects, threatening sexual abuse against family members, waterboarding, these are a few of the things that detainees had to endure. Just the thought of someone having to go through that pain is enough to reject torture but having to tolerate images put out for the world to see is unbelievable and that is something that some had to go through, making it impossible