I've been watching the television series 24 lately, and, being a show with lots of "government conflict", there is shooting as well as torture (not extremely graphic, however). Anyway, the torture aspect got me thinking, "Is torture right?" I did some watching and reading, and I have formed a what I think is well supported opinion. Torture is wrong because it is inhumane.
The idea of causing someone so much pain that they feel as though they might die is just plain wrong. However, I can see where "interrogators" are coming from. People like terrorists could potentially cause great harm to the United States.
While what they're doing is very wrong and I believe that they have no right to come and kill lots of people, we must remember that these terrorists are just doing what their god (lowercase) is telling them to do. Would you tell God (uppercase) "No, I'm not going to do that." if he directly told you to do something? However, God (uppercase) would never tell you to do something bad like that.
Back on torture, specifically, water boarding. Water boarding IS torture. Not an "enhanced interrogation technique". Making someone think that they're about to die, especially by drowning, which feels scary, needs to be stopped. It seems to me that all of this fancy wordplay from the government is just trying to make us feel like we're doing the right thing when it is totally wrong.
In the end, I think that, in terms of torture, we should remember the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
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