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]

Why are you saying that it's based on a black and white scenario? Also, our country has not based our interigation methods upon torture, but for you to think that it doesn't happen is just naive.

Just wondering then, since you're SO against any type of torture, how would you get information from an enemy? How would you extract intel from a German in WW2? Oh that's right... we should just put them up in a nice hotel with clean sheets till the war is over cause that's what they're doing for our guys. The f-ing ACLU is trying to have anything beyond basic interigation (name, rank, etc) considered torture... so you'd basically be for gaining absolutely NO information from captured enemies?

Again, sorry if you think I'm making a black and white scenario... but you haven't made any, just slamming everyone else's opinions.

[M@ster of Dis@ster]

Why are you saying that it's based on a black and white scenario? Also, our country has not based our interigation methods upon torture, but for you to think that it doesn't happen is just naive.

Just wondering then, since you're SO against any type of torture, how would you get information from an enemy? How would you extract intel from a German in WW2? Oh that's right... we should just put them up in a nice hotel with clean sheets till the war is over cause that's what they're doing for our guys. The f-ing ACLU is trying to have anything beyond basic interigation (name, rank, etc) considered torture... so you'd basically be for gaining absolutely NO information from captured enemies?

Again, sorry if you think I'm making a black and white scenario... but you haven't made any, just slamming everyone else's opinions.

I'm not just slamming everyone's else's opinion, I'm making my points as best I can.

Read the article I linked and read what you own military teachers think about torture. There are proven interragation techniques, and they don't involve torture. I know, I know, they don't have that yummy, violent "revenge" aspect to them, but they are what generally work, so when torture methods are known to not work well and are also morally reprehensible, I don't know what on earth the argument can be for them. Once you get past the fictional scenarios where when the good guys use torture, it always works, and get to the real world the conclusions are torture is a rather useless method if you want HONEST intel. I mean, if all you want is *any* intel or a confession, true or not, torture works. You can torture almost anyone to say ANYTHING, which is why non-democratic countires love it, they are less concerned about finding out the truth than gaining confessions for kangaroo courts. But is that what we want?