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As newspapers and documentary films continue to discuss waterboarding and other controversial treatments of suspected terrorists, the debate over torture remains intense. Some insist that desperate times call for desperate measures, but others are baffled that such methods could exist in a civilized society. Is physical persuasion ever an appropriate means of interrogation?
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A Grave Threat
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I can see the rationalization behind the given examples, but torture should only be used as a last resort in only rare and specific cases. Using torture to obtain information is not only morally wrong but the information is not always correct and can’t be trusted. Also, torture not only can have a long lasting effect on the prisoners but also the soldier or person who is doing the torturing. This person is not hurting another at an indirect level as seen in combat but they are torturing them directly, seeing the effects clearly in front of them. Seeing this can have a long lasting effect on the person, specifically mentally. It is not alright to torture another person, but it is just as not morally correct to mentally torture the soldiers who are doing the torturing.
- big red
February 12, 2009 10:08PM
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i have to argee
i think that only in the very rare cases are and should be allowed to use such treatment because we are all still human no matter what people do but if a terroist has info that could save my family then by all means id do it
- hogcrazy
February 16, 2009 8:38PM
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