Is Torture Justified?, University Paper.. Options

[Slimshady]

I'm writing a paper and whether or not torture is a justifiable act. I just wanna hear some your opinions, later i'll put up some scenarios to see how you fell about them.

Thanks

[pezking]

Actually, I don't watch 24 or CSI. I'm referring more to the prisoners that the coalition forces have interigated in Middle East or in our own prisons. We have gained intelligence of future attacks/bombings and have successfully stopped them. We have captured more people as well, many of them could have been the next Bin Laden. We captured Saddam and killed his sons through intelligence gained from friendly and interigation methods.

I'm not trying to say that people should have their limbs cut off... all I'm saying is that if interviewing a prisoner and playing loud music in his cell so he can't sleep can get information from him or her that leads to my countrymen not being killed, I'm all for it.

[M@ster of Dis@ster]

Actually, I don't watch 24 or CSI. I'm referring more to the prisoners that the coalition forces have interigated in Middle East or in our own prisons. We have gained intelligence of future attacks/bombings and have successfully stopped them. We have captured more people as well, many of them could have been the next Bin Laden. We captured Saddam and killed his sons through intelligence gained from friendly and interigation methods.

Successfully stopped them eh? And you know this because evidence was used against them at trial and facts were proven? No, you are basing this on the government, i.e. George Bush and "unamed sources" saying this is so, just like they said Bin Laden and Saddam worked together, and you couldn't walk through Iraq without tripping over a WMD!

The Bush administration had played so much politics with the War on Terror you can't trust one thing they say about anything, especially the arguments that their "techniques" have led to all sorts of successes that, of course, they can't ever tell us about, "national security and all", but hell just trust them because politicians and their benefactors NEVER lie, right?

Oh, and Saddam's sons were turned in by their cousin for a $25 million reward, not torture or interragations. How they found Saddam, I'm not sure, but the account was they searched a farm, were about to leave, saw a guy on the compound that was there, and when they went up to him he immediately panicked and pointed to where Saddam was. What info you are sourcing to point out that Saddam was found "through intelligence gained from friendly and interigation methods." I have no idea.

By the way, here's the story Bargod refers too. Never read it before, but a quick Google search turned it up.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/arti...19fa_fact_mayer

This post has been edited by M@ster of Dis@ster: 03/07/07 6:03pm