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    Torture Is Waterboarding

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    Torture is Torture. Period Torture is causing pain and suffering to gain information and confessions. It’s a traditional‚ historical‚ well-understood term. Waterboarding is a form of torture in which a bound‚ gagged prisoner is forced to breathe in water. There are several techniques but all produce the same effects‚ a physical sensation of drowning and a psychological sensation of panic‚ fear and loss of control. Calling it anything other than torture is absurd. You wouldn’t call a bank robbery

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    Morality of Torture

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    The moral issue of torture is one that has come under scrutiny by many national and international organizations as of late. To talk about torture one must really understand what torture is. As taken from Dictionary.com "1.a. Infliction or severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion. b. An instrument or a method for inflicting such pain. 2. Excruciating physical or mental pain; agony. 3. Something causing severe pain or anguish." This is just the literal meaning of the word but doesn’t

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    The Art of Torture

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    The Art of Torture According to a 2006 survey conducted by BBC News‚ 58% of Americans say that any form of torture upon a fellow man for any reason is wrong (“One-third” 1)‚ which is ironic because horror films‚ such as Saw and Hostel‚ where victims are brutally murdered and ripped to shreds for the audience’s pure entertainment pleasure topped the box offices with their releases in 2004 and 2005. By looking at sociopolitical platforms and moral messages behind the ‘torture porn’ subgenre‚

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    Torture In Prisons

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    Torture is defined as the action of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something. The Central Intelligence Agency put in place “advanced interrogation techniques” under the Bush Administration after the occurrence of 9/11. These techniques can easily be viewed as a form of torture. A citizen of the United States often agrees with the CIA’s interrogation techniques‚ however‚ one is often under assumption that the CIA has the right detainee in prison‚ the

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    Debating Torture

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    TORTURE Using Torture to Gather Intelligence About Terrorism Tim Sonnreich‚ February 2005. Once upon a time (as in about 4 years ago) the issue of ’torture’ (i.e. whether it is ever acceptable to use it) was very rarely debated - and when it was debated‚ defending torture was considered an extremely hardline to defend. That reality existed for a good reason - namely that torture is almost unimaginably terrible‚ and should never be something that people speak of lightly. In fact the few times

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    Origins Of Torture

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    Torture the action of inflicting pain to a subject in order to get the truth or make them do something they want. The origins of torture date back to 530 A. D. were in many ancient civilizations such as Romans‚ Jews‚ and Egyptians practiced the arts and ways of torture to force others to say something they want. With their lewd ways of doing the job and their inhumane machinery‚ it has become one of the most depraved forms for the extraction of truth. Their fundamental roots of their form still

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    Wheel of torture

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    WHEEL OF TORTURE Ten (10) Philippine National Police officers have been discharged after revelations that they played a game called “wheel of torture” at a secret detention facility. The Commission on Human Rights is looking into the supposed maltreatment of up to 41 detainees in the Philippine National Police facility in Biñan‚ Laguna. The facility is a 200-square-meter bungalow being rented by the Laguna police intelligence branch first district unit composed of 12 staffs. At the kitchen area

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    Medieval Torture

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    The English in medieval times‚ utilized torture to extract information or a confession from a certain person (generally performed on infidels and church priests because of how religion was very important Medieval English society.) Torturers would torture someone with great skill by preventing the victim to not pass out and receive life-threatening damage but still deal excruciating pain to reach success in the torture. There were a large variety of tortures in medieval England but the particularly

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    Ethics Of Torture

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    “Physical torture can affect the brain‚ too. But by itself‚ “psychological torture undermines the very ability to think‚ and it doesn’t leave any marks.”- Psychologist Steven Reisner. One of the many techniques the government uses to interrogate mainly terrorist is a form of torture to get them to give up information. They use techniques such as waterboarding‚ rectal feeding and hydration‚ confinement in boxes‚ using cold water beating‚ threats‚ etc. Using torture is very uncommon‚ it is only used

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    History Of Torture

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    The History of Torture Why was torture used in almost every civilization within historical record? Torture was first recorded to have been by vikings but it has been a part of every society known to man. Even though‚ each civilization has has a different spin on their forms and reasons for torture‚ it has lasted centuries. Torture has been around for an incredibly long time‚ and has many different methods used for many different reasons. Vikings first started making raids around 790 B.C.

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