Is Torture Ever Acceptable

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Is torture ever morally acceptable, If so under what circumstances? Firstly, what exactly is torture? It can be defined as the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as a punishment or revenge, to try and acquire some sort of confession about some particular issue or some information; also is could be just pure cruelty or hate for that particular individual. A method of inflicting such pain, often suffering for that particular individual is extreme anguish of the body or the mind and agony. However, torture can happen in a few different methods Psychological and Physical some examples of psychological would be – blackmailing, shaming, shunning, sleep deprivation or a good common one is pharmacological torture; severe psychological distress is a result of this sort of torture after long periods of time. Some of the Physical torture techniques may be, beating, cutting or drowning. From the mid fourteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century torture was an accepted practice by armies, judicial systems and even churches. Torture is now a thing of the past luckily for us living today. Torture is morally wrong for people to even think about legalising this sort of practise; really gets amazement from most of the world’s population because really is pain and suffering of a human being humain at all. Nevertheless, under any circumstance it should not be allowed, other ways must be found because decisions like legalising torture, and in a civilized society is just unheard of; we do not need to legalise torture to combat terrorism, because terrorism cannot hurt us unless we allow it. We don’t even need to be discussing legalising torture in any country; there is just no need for this kind of behavior. “Even when the victim has the necessary information, torture frequently fails to extract it.” In some cases killing is absolutely right; killing someone to prevent
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