BELIEVE ME IT’S TORTURE
- 1. Is waterboarding an effective use of torture? How accurate would the information be?
- 2. Is there anything else besides torture that the government can use to get information?
- 3. Could the government argue that this is an acceptable way to get information from people although it is immoral and could possibly cause death to the person being tortured?
I have never been involved in waterboarding, so I feel that
a person who has experienced the pain could fully explain the experiences and
what they would say to get it to stop. Although I have never had it happen to
me, from reading Christopher Hitchen’s “Believe Me It’s Torture”, he states how
he would do or say anything to get the torturing seized. Being waterboarded
basically feels like you are dowing, and you cannot breath at all without the
feeling of suffocating. Due to this it seems that this type of torture will be
able to make the suspect talk and give information, but how accurate will the
information be? I feel that if they are under that amount of immense pressure
and are basically scared for their lives, they will say anything, even if that
means giving false information, to be
able to escape the feeling of drowning.
Hitchens states that the prosecutors would barely have any time to ask any
type of questions before he agreed to give answers, even if that meant they
were falsified. I don’t believe that
waterboarding is at all an effective way to get information at out anyway. What
they could be saying, could be extremely false and maybe not even relevant to
what is being asked, just so they could breathe again. I feel that the
government could come up with another way to receive information from people
that does not involve putting people in the mindset that they are dying, where
they will say anything just to get the pain to stop. If the person they are
waterboarding were to maybe unfortunately die, then they have no way whatsoever
to get the information from that individual.
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