Torture 7

Torture 7

Sarah Ball AP GOV’T 1/21/2009 TORTURE, AN EASY WAY TO GET LIES `Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.”The world has come to such extremes of interrogation and negotiation that torture seems the only option. Seemingly, people overlook other options to rush to the harshest of punishments. I am opposed to the use of tortureduring interrogation because it rarely produces useful information and goes against the principles which we are trying to defend.` ` Ariel Dorfman, also arguing against Bush’s claim that torture is key to gaining information from terrorists, states thattorture is not effective in the slightest. She argues her case with an example of a man from Argentina who had fled from his homeland to the borders of Chile, where he began to boast lies about weapons and methods he didn’t truly have, trying to making friends and impress the ladies, but only ending up in the hands of the Chilean military. There he was tortured endlessly until he told his tortures everything they wanted to hear, creating fraudulent names and addresses of people that did not exist, until the found this all to be imagined, and they tortured him more. This case tries the idea that torture makes people give false allegations in order to make their torturers happy. Therefore,...

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