The World of Crime and Justice

It has been debated around the world and yet there has been no answer for it. Yes, can we ever use torture in dealing with criminals and terrorists. Is it really justifiable. If you ask me, i would have to say a firm "NO". There is no way, torturing people can ever be called justice.

In article one, the ineffectiveness of torture in getting the truth out of detainees is clearly shown. To go so low as to start threating that the childen would be killed is really too much. Surely there is a way out of violence. We have been brought up to use our brains and its about time that we start using nore of brain power than muscle power. The FBI seems to believe so and has not employed violence to get the truth out of the the al-Qaeda members. The used the knowledge of religion to sort of persuade them that allah had ensured their survival to ensure that the lives of many others could be saved, giving them a real purpose in life. Not only this, but they even used kindness and promised for an operation to be done to one of the member's child. These methods eventually helped turn the members over to the good side. However, the CIA, being brash and headstrong, decided to use muscle power and would go to the most extreme measures to get the truth out of the members. It was no surprise that Bush and Cheney sided with the way CIA ran their interrogation process.

The CIA were barely successful in getting the "truth" out of the members. The "truth" being stuff that the intelligence had already knwon long before. But, the public was getting wift of these tortures and immediately turned on their President. Bush was clearly being backed to a corner and he could do nothing but lie in their faces. The CIA had gooten large results...The results had lead to the captures of two more high profile terrorists...well done to torture...These were lies only known to the intelligence community. There are even the costs of emplying torture that we all should consider. Say we torture someone, and that person has already given you the infomation that you need. But is that person really going to one day, "Hey you know, i have some additional infomation that you can use..." Fat hope is what i would say. Treat someone with at least a little bit of decency, and the rewards will be far better. Moreover, torturing someone just to get the truth is not legal.

Article 2 gives us the view of someone who is with torture and of course the contrasting opinions of a human rights group. Basically, its the question of whether these actions are ethical. Beating someone to a pulp...Humans beating up humans...Is it really right??? But Mr Faris(pro-torture) mentioned about a psychopatic murderer bruying a teenage girl and the clock running down on you, i sort of started to think that violence would surely have to be used in this circumstance. So, what i am driving at, is there going be a situation where nothing else can be done and the last resort in to use force???

Stangely enough, we should actually think about the people who are the ones who actually torture the people. Just what is going to their head while they brutalise the person??? It has got to be the most traumatising thing to go through. Imagine having vivid dreams about the person who you tortured...Its enough to drive anyone nuts. I thought about this after watching the drama LOST, where there was actually an Iraqi prison torturer among the survivors. In one episode, he confronts one of the victims of his torture(her hands and face were brutally scarred) and actually breaks down crying, saying that he has never spent a day in his life not reflecting on the pain that he has caused.

Overally, torture is a very brutal act and it should never be followed regadless of how desperate the situation is. Else, we can might as well throw away the morals that we work so hard to preserve.