Analysis of Michael Levin´s Article The Case of Torture

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Michael Levin's article on "The Case for Torture." is an article which mainly discusess the use of torture as necessary and important in order to safeguard the lives of the many innocents and society and, is justifiable. In one of his examples, he verbally states that the mass murder of millions of an innocent crowd by a terrorist justifies the use an act of torture to stop such a brutal and barbaric act. This is a question of ethics on the action of wreak havoc. We need to look at the scenario of a war. People will never say that it is immoral or bad to let our soldiers kill or inflict pain on the enemies in a war because we know that it is the only way to make secure and safeguard our nation's freedom and the lives of our country men. The motives are very clear as mentioned in the article. Thus it‘s justifiable to let our soldiers kill those who want to harm the lives of our people. When a terrorist clearly have a willingness to harm the lives of millions of people, why is it not justified, to inflict pain on the terrorist, with the aim of wanting to protect and secure the lives of many more innocent people? Surely it is a right decision! Now one may look at this argument: The Constitution of America protects the interest of one's rights but, to torture a person is a breach of law that protection of interest is not there. Therefore, Torture is illegitimate. Torturing is however, is an illegal act only when the aim behind it is deemed reasonably immoral. One should then not inflict pain mainly just to push the other party to make a confession of the truth to a matter if one does not wish to do. But, what if the truth will then lead to the place of say, a bomb, which could then be diffused in time an... ... middle of paper ... ...ded at the time. Should we all know the truth and would actually accommodate to orders under torture. If people reject the author's argument and we have carry out exact pain to pressure out the truth from them, we may just get that since the likelihood must have been higher because of the accuracy of the agencies' information. As a closing statement, I feel that eventually, the case for torture is an exercise that is acceptable so long as it satisfies the completion of the concept of "moral or character standards…” as a whole. There will not be a close answer on “whether torture was right or wrong”. It will be a question that will continue to be implemented onto humanity should they decide to attain one definite approval. Till then, we should continue to equilibrium the innocent lives against the means wanted to save them, with regards to attention of morals

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