Torture is solely one of the methods used to extract information but there are other ways without acting like Tyrants to achieve the same goal. Torture is unquestionably inhumane, ineffective (for the most part) and most importantly immoral. Numerous military experts mention that the concept of torture does not work because the detainee confirms their belief in the right of their cause once trust is broken between the interrogator and detainee (Brook, 2014). Torture is not necessarily extracting any truth but instead utilizing a primitive form of assertive dominance over another person. Secondly, the information received is only what the interrogators want to hear, in which is the not the truth in most cases. Sadly, torture is generally prohibited but I feel as if it still goes on; more often than we’d like to think secretly. It is also a bit disturbing how our President agrees with such heinous actions. I also find it disturbing how the CIA director Mike Pompeo used the term “enhanced interrogation techniques” as a way to avoid the word torture. Sure, torture is effective at times, but how does that make us as a society any better than those who we are claiming to be terrorists? …show more content…
It seems a bit hypocritical to claim something is wrong when someone does it to you, but it is okay if you do it them. Water boarding was also ineffective as information was gathered more frequently without its use. According to Brook (2014), water boarding, beatings and solitary confinement was unsuccessful in obtaining information involving future terror plots, but caused the detainees to vomit and induced