Torture and interrogation
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Muted Scream Fabulous Killjoy Age: 41 Gender: Male Posts: 108 | |
oceanic 815. Full of Ephedrine Age: - Gender: - Posts: 43317 | Torture: any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. |
Muted Scream Fabulous Killjoy Age: 41 Gender: Male Posts: 108 | Okay that is a more politicaly correct definition of torture. But should it be necessary? |
IXPROMISE Jazz Hands Age: 30 Gender: Male Posts: 360 | Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion. An instrument or a method for inflicting such pain. Excruciating physical or mental pain; agony: the torture of waiting in suspense. Something causing severe pain or anguish. |
Muted Scream Fabulous Killjoy Age: 41 Gender: Male Posts: 108 | okay okay ppl! i'm sure we all get the idea of what "torture" is by now! I want your opinions on wether or not it should be used for extraction of intricate information during interrogations! so please stop posting your definitions!!!! |
Jeffree Star Motor Baby Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 950 | Just a question saw the movie "Hostel"? If that's anything nearly as bad as and interigation is here then I think we don't need it. Yes it can make progress, but my gosh. That suspect has humane rights too. |
xodemolition-loverox Killjoy Age: 29 Gender: Female Posts: 28 | no i do not beleive in torture it is bad ,even to get valid information |
Muted Scream Fabulous Killjoy Age: 41 Gender: Male Posts: 108 | I agree that torture is bad when it is used for the simple reason of inflcting unecessary harm upon someone just for a sadistic means. But let's say that a sick pedophile serial killer/rapist has kidnapped a close relative...or someone important to you, and they refuse to give any info from normal verbal interrogation, how far should it go to get the needed info to save that person's life? I mean, do we just beat around the bush "Humanelyl" until the victim dies from exposure/starvation/suffocation? What if a terrorist has planted an explosive somewhere in the USA, and it will go off at a certain time (reference the zodiac) and the suspect is captured. A million lives are at stake..women, children, the elderly. the suspect refuses negotiations, oral interrogations, threats, pleas. what do do next? what would you do? |
Casimir Pulaski Day Shotgun Sinner Age: 94 Gender: Female Posts: 8861 | When police/army use it just for a means of entertainment, it's bad. Nobody should have to go through that if they are POWs, they should stick to interrogation, not tortutre just to pass the time. In S.S. we did a thing with Guantanmo Bay, and how the president knows what is going on, but chooses not to do anything about it. Torture in the U.S. is illegal, but since Guantanamo Bay is in Cuba. . . Well, they prefer torture, I guess we can leave it at that. I, however, think it is wrong, and that they should not torture people to get information, or just for 'fun'. |
Muted Scream Fabulous Killjoy Age: 41 Gender: Male Posts: 108 | I agree, teh atrocities at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib are inexcusable. But there are also other "interrogation" operations being conducted secretly, in secret locations that are unknown. But aside from sadism, I feel that torture should be reserved for very dire means that could save a large number of innocent lives. Sometimes one has to break a few eggs to make an omolet (sp?) |
EMO_TEDDY Jazz Hands Age: 34 Gender: Male Posts: 380 | ok well if u think tortouring people is wrong in interigation then u are just silly because i dunno say there werebombs in lots of places ready to go off due to terroism an the only way to get the info in time is to hurt them do u think it is exceptable then..................i think its fun its the kind of person i am haha yes im sick minded i know but hey there ya go |
Muted Scream Fabulous Killjoy Age: 41 Gender: Male Posts: 108 | true, causing pain and torment could have the person surrender information. but who is to say that that information obtained ins accurate,let alone true? what if they were in so much pain, they only blurted out what the interrogators wanted to hear? then torture would be a pointless waste of time. just consider those into the equation. |
sass attack. Demolition Lover Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 15290 | Muted Scream: I completely agree. So long as the information obtained were the vital key to saving people's lives. . . it might be okay. But there is the fact that these people have rights too. To torture someone like they are an animal is wrong, no person should be subjected to something like that. It is a fate worse than death because the pain keeps coming and it never stops until they get what they want. |
fallout vapor Jazz Hands Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 318 | I'm sure there's a better way for getting very important information. Most people don't actually train themselves to trick lie detectors. I'll bet the governments already have better ways of getting someone to tell the truth, injections that numb your brain so that you answer automatically, or something similar. A commonplace kidnapper wouldn't be trained to resist that sort of stuff, and if the person was working for some top-secret assosciation, well, they wouldn't be getting tortured anyways, they'd have proper protection. But I think there's an even worse affect on the person who's torturing someone else- I mean, to torture someone, you have to be extremely brutal...like a maniac. Who knows what those kind of people will do? Having to torture another human probably ruins their lives, completely. |
Disturbia Salute You in Your Grave Age: 102 Gender: Female Posts: 3267 | I did a 30 page project on 'amnesty' wich is an organization for the declaration of human rights, using letter campaigns they can often free people that are tortured and imprisoned for hardly anything.. It was sad to do the project cos we had to watch a video and this dude got electrecuted on the eletric chair some place in amaerica |
Muted Scream Fabulous Killjoy Age: 41 Gender: Male Posts: 108 | Sodium penethol is the "truth Serum". but using it is just as much of a travesty on human rights as torture. it may be more humane than torture, but it still tramples on the human rights by the fact that you would hold down a human being, and administer a drug into their systems that alters their mental awareness. sure it's more humane, but it's still a crime in some books. lie detectors aren't very accurate, and if teh person is uncooperative, that makes things even more harder. |
John St. John Shotgun Sinner Age: 31 Gender: Male Posts: 7145 | i think it should be used in like terrorism and stuff but thats it when other peoples lives are at risk again from like terrorist attacks then it shoudld be used but thats just my opinion |
ilovegerardway2much Jazz Hands Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 353 | no1 deserves2 be tortured. end of discussion |
fxmous-lxst-words Joining The Black Parade Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 226 | i agree w/ ilovegerardway2much, no one deserves that...if someone did something bad, they did something bad. doesn't mean they're a horrible person. |
Oxycontin Genocide. Banned Age: 29 Gender: Male Posts: 2955 | The reason we fought Communist countries was because of the fact that they tortured war prisoners. If you positively know that there's no other choice, and lives are at stake, then maybe. The torture at Guantanamo Bay and other places are enexcusable. Most of them are probably not terrorists. With the Patriot Act, the President can decide if a person is classified as a "terrorist" they can be put somewhere with no bail or trial. It's rediculous and extremely illegal. Basically, he made it posible to racially profile people and put them in jail for no reason. |
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