RE: Torture..
October 25, 2014 at 1:29 am
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2014 at 1:33 am by Heywood.)
What is torture?
If torture is causing physical pain as punishment or to force someone to say or do something then waterboarding isn't torture. It really sucks to be water boarded.....but its not painful.
If torture is causing mental or physical discomfort as punishment or to force someone to say or do something then waterboarding is torture. But being in prison would cause me mental and physical discomfort...so if I use this definition I have to conclude that incarceration is also torture.
I accept both definitions.
I have no qualms about incarcerating people and since incarceration is torture(it is because it satisfies an acceptible definition of torture), then If I am honest with myself I have to conclude I don't have any qualms about torturing people.
The real question for me is how much torture is appropriate, and I think that is dependent on the situation.
If torture is causing physical pain as punishment or to force someone to say or do something then waterboarding isn't torture. It really sucks to be water boarded.....but its not painful.
If torture is causing mental or physical discomfort as punishment or to force someone to say or do something then waterboarding is torture. But being in prison would cause me mental and physical discomfort...so if I use this definition I have to conclude that incarceration is also torture.
I accept both definitions.
I have no qualms about incarcerating people and since incarceration is torture(it is because it satisfies an acceptible definition of torture), then If I am honest with myself I have to conclude I don't have any qualms about torturing people.
The real question for me is how much torture is appropriate, and I think that is dependent on the situation.
