Why Is Torture Never Justified?
World is suffering every day, and sometimes there is nothing that people can do with it. Problems seem to be invisible and they are often underestimated, so that society do not try to solve them. One of them is terrorism. What comes to your mind? Every child, adult and retired one faced with this problem, and it is becoming terrible. How many broken childhoods, dreams and desires… Even if not to talk about the destructive consequences for buildings, houses, and public places, it is a world catastrophe for billions of people. Can you imagine that there were 130, 000 number of fatalities worldwide between 2006 and 2015? Total number of deaths per month is considered to be 2, 727. World has already listened to millions of words of sympathy, but
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2. Skilled and experienced torturers are available only if torture is institutionalised. 3. Torture by unskilled and inexperienced torturers is always unjustified. 4. However, institutionalising torture has very bad consequences; it will mean that torture will metastasise instead of being limited to one-off cases. 5. Conclusion: Torture is never justified (one should never torture). This can be an additional argument for the theory of deontology, as are we professional tortures? Nowadays, a lot of the governments in the world have stopped torturing by law. Approximately, 45% countries in the world have it (Ohchr.org, 2015)
In fact, according to ABCNEWS investigative reporter Brian Ross, this technique has been used on terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and it has helped thwart a plot to attack a building in Los Angeles. Yet, Mr. Ross also said – because I watched the interview – that on other occasions, the information gathered by torture did not yield useful information – it was just to stop the …show more content…
According to Bengt (2010) the politics should encourage the happiness principle, which consist strong moral values such as maximizing the happiness and minimizing the suffering. By torturing a person, politician will minimize the value of happiness. Utilitarianism theory states that society must promote happiness for everyone, minimizing the harm from the different actions. Authors of this theory, Bentham and Mill say that morally best alternative or solution is that, which requires no sufferings and making a big amount of people happy. If to apply to case that we are considering, it seems that the only right decision in this situation is a proper talk with terrorist. Since sometimes terrorists use these talk to say or do something that will provoke the administration, all the safety issues must be completed (Bufacchi & Arrigo, 2006). Utility here is people, who are in these buildings with a bomb, and sometimes we should sacrifice something in order to get to happiness and good consequences, which means that in accordance with utilitarianism theory, politician can protect those, who are not in these buildings right now. Only 35% of people are usually rescued in such situations with terrorists (BBC,
2. Skilled and experienced torturers are available only if torture is institutionalised. 3. Torture by unskilled and inexperienced torturers is always unjustified. 4. However, institutionalising torture has very bad consequences; it will mean that torture will metastasise instead of being limited to one-off cases. 5. Conclusion: Torture is never justified (one should never torture). This can be an additional argument for the theory of deontology, as are we professional tortures? Nowadays, a lot of the governments in the world have stopped torturing by law. Approximately, 45% countries in the world have it (Ohchr.org, 2015)
In fact, according to ABCNEWS investigative reporter Brian Ross, this technique has been used on terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and it has helped thwart a plot to attack a building in Los Angeles. Yet, Mr. Ross also said – because I watched the interview – that on other occasions, the information gathered by torture did not yield useful information – it was just to stop the …show more content…
According to Bengt (2010) the politics should encourage the happiness principle, which consist strong moral values such as maximizing the happiness and minimizing the suffering. By torturing a person, politician will minimize the value of happiness. Utilitarianism theory states that society must promote happiness for everyone, minimizing the harm from the different actions. Authors of this theory, Bentham and Mill say that morally best alternative or solution is that, which requires no sufferings and making a big amount of people happy. If to apply to case that we are considering, it seems that the only right decision in this situation is a proper talk with terrorist. Since sometimes terrorists use these talk to say or do something that will provoke the administration, all the safety issues must be completed (Bufacchi & Arrigo, 2006). Utility here is people, who are in these buildings with a bomb, and sometimes we should sacrifice something in order to get to happiness and good consequences, which means that in accordance with utilitarianism theory, politician can protect those, who are not in these buildings right now. Only 35% of people are usually rescued in such situations with terrorists (BBC,