Argumentative Essay On Torture

“As I struggle to gain my breath after my head is lifted back out of the tub filled to the brim with water, I gasp for air before I am dunked back inside the tub until I will pass out from the lack of oxygen travelling to my brain. Should I continue to hang on to this valuable piece of information keeping my country safe or give it up and let all the innocent children be at risk in our nation?” In this story, it shows a scene from a young soldier being tortured over the information he is keeping in order to keep his nation safe. Is this torture moral for the other country or could it be proven otherwise?

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” This quote from Mahatma Gandhi talks about how torture can beat and bruise someone, but does it get results? Torture’s ethics are not always the clearest subject: there are many different sides to the argument but for this paper there will only be two discussed. The first viewpoint is that of someone who is for the use of torture, they believe that torture is moral because it provides results in times of war or when the nation is being attacked. Those for it believe that torturing another human being is the only quick way to get results in order to save lives. Then there are those people who are against the thought of torturing another person. Their reason for this belief is that when someone is tortured they may be willing to admit guilt or tell the torturer information that is not relevant because they want the torturing to stop. These people also believe that it is immoral to treat people like this. According to Dictionary.com, torture has multiple definitions these are the following: “The act of inflicting excruciating...

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... Were their actions too severe or this innocent man? As one can see there is no right or wrong answer as to whether torture is moral or not, that is why it is such a controversial issue. There is no such thing as a right answer to this question, because the morality of the issue is your own opinion. Do we view it as moral if there is going to be a bombing that might take place on our soil? Is there a fine line on torture that makes some of it moral for different situations? These questions are not for me to answer, but for you to look inside yourself and think as to whether or not these acts that are being done to people fit into the moral beliefs that you have. I have not told anyone what to believe in, I just put the facts out there and shared my own opinion, now it is time for everyone to put on their big boy or big girl pants and decide on what they believe in.