Why Is Waterboarding Unethical

Waterboarding is a torture technique used by military personnel to retrieve information, or at least attempt, from terrorist during investigations. In recent events Donald Trump has stated “…it actually works…” and it’s time to “…fight fire with fire.”(“Donald Trump says torture ‘absolutely works’—but does it?) However, despite the theory that it works, many other factors apply to the reasoning of why it should not be used. Waterboarding is a torturous, unethical, murderous method of interrogation and should be illegal.
Waterboarding causes the sensation of drowning without physically holding a person’s head under water. Water is poured over a cloth or rag covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive. This is torture. The captive individual is questioned and interrogated in between the water being poured. Not only is this method tortuous, but it is also unethical.
Ethics are the moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or conducting of an activity. Murder is an unethical action and therefore a person whom preforms or involves themselves in the process of waterboarding, associates themselves with negative or unethical values. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “Right to Life, Liberty, and Personal Security” (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) are three of the top rights for people. Waterboarding violates every single one of those rights as a human being. Although waterboarding may not kill the victim immediately, but over time more often than not, the victim will experience medical complications eventually leading to