Miller Torture Vs Torture

Within the subject of ethics, there are many concepts, arguments, and ways of life that are pretty straightforward, but ethics can dive into the very deep thoughts into the ways of life and how people should encounter some of the things life throws at us. Ethics might not have the answers to many problems; but based on some of the ethical theories, people can begin to think and ponder these problems. Torture is agreeably a touchy or disturbing subject for most and is shunned upon or seen as very unusual and taboo.
But why is this? The most obvious answer is because torture is the act of causing great pain to someone who can be any sort of prisoner of war, a captive, arrested criminal, ect. But torture can be even further defined to the very core of the problem. Two men wrote on the matter of torture and its justifications, and the definition it bears. David
Or is killing worse than torture? Miller gives many examples of how torture and killing are the same morally. Miller expresses “both interrupt and render impossible the normal conduct of human life.” However Miller doesn’t believe that this is enough to say that one is worse than the other. But Miller also points out how tortured viction are ‘physically powerless’, and those who are dead have no power or autonomy. Concluding his statements, Miller comes to the reason that torture is not morally worse than killing… But in some cases, it can be morally worse. Sussman however, doesn’t necessarily see torture the same way. Ultimately, Sussman see torture equal to killing and the wrongness of them. Sussman also sees that torture has a special moral status. Sussman believes that torture has a special wrongness to it that we can somehow see but can’t explain. He theorizes that this is maybee why moral agents view torture as a greater evil or higher wrongness than death, even though they have close