Is torture necessary?
By c2adams2
@c2adams2 (351)
United States
March 19, 2007 2:23am CST
I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher, and he mentioned the often overlooked question--Is torture necessary? I would like to get some opinions from both sides of the aisle on this one.
I personally disagree with torture. I think it yeilds bad intelligence and lowers both the international and domestic image of America.
2 responses
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
23 Mar 07
I dont believe in torture.....I also dont believe what we (the u.s.) engages in it....if you look at what those crying such point to, you can HARDLY call it torture....lap dances? hell sign me up when the taliban rise again..I think a lap dance would have been welcome to Daniel pearl instead of the beheading. I imagine that anyone captured by a vienamese soldier would havew prefered loud rock music to having elctrodes attatched to their nipples and testicals.
Sleep deprivation, loud music? being yelled at? This is torture? If this is the case then every parent of a teenager in this country is being tortured.
@c2adams2 (351)
• United States
23 Mar 07
Thank you for your opinion...but a single picture from Abuh Greb (sp?) proves you wrong. Maybe you have seen it. Its the one where a female soldier is holding the leash of a stripped detainee as he is forced to behave like a dog. And this is just the tip of the iceburg. That is a little more than loud music.
@Netsbridge (3253)
• United States
21 Mar 07
Regardless of the goal, I do not think that torture of any form is proper. However, I think all these tortures we hear about are actually entertainment games just like some of the sadistic games the Greeks used to carry-out for mere entertainment. I do not believe that any government needs to torture people just to gain intelligence!
