Torture should not be justified because torture is ineffective. Accurate information does not always result from torture. A study proves this by stating “Under torture a person will say anything to stop being tortured” (McCain). In other words, what people say while being tortured are not actual facts. …show more content…
Accounts from Rodgers, a torture victim, reinforce the fact that torture is ineffective. “First they make you crazy. Next you believe you are going to die, so there is no point in confessing” (Rodgers). Torture does not make you want to confess, it just makes you worried and insane. “What torture does is frighten people” (Zink). If torture only causes irrational thinking and does not make people confess accurate information then it is ineffective. Torture should not be justified because it is ineffective.
Torture should not be justified because it is inhumane. One reason torture is inhumane is because it violates human rights. The USA has power to violate human rights to counter terrorism which includes torture (Gao). The United States is a world power and many other countries look to American forms of counterterrorism as a model. A study from China agrees with this saying “China tortures its citizens; this is a violation of the convention against torture” (Yang). If naturally born human rights are being taken away, then torture is inhumane. Torture also goes against human