Benefits Of Torture In The Film 'Zero Dark Thirty'
Amy Lee
Professor Yun
English 201A
10 November 2014
The Benefits of Torture
Over the decades, people have viewed torture has horrifying, inhumane, and excessive. In the movie, Zero Dark Thirty, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, it was mainly used for interrogations to obtain information from the detainees about certain people. In the film, there are many scenes that display the superficial layers of enhanced interrogation and gives the viewers an automatic response that torture is bad. While many viewers see that enhanced interrogation has many bad aspects, did they ever wonder about the good ones? How it helped to save many lives? How it helped to kill Osama bin Laden? Why it’s needed to prevent further troubles? Did people ever consider the role …show more content…
When released, sometimes they are unable to function again in society. They are likely to be psychologically damaged for the rest of their lives, suffering trauma or finding it difficult to trust others. That is still a significant amount of damage to one person’s life and directly impedes their autonomy. So, it is never justified to use utilitarian morality in decision making. In addition, even if the victim does not break, he will still characteristically discover within himself a host of traitorous temptations. The suspect would still have an incentive to lie, for three reasons. Firstly, they would lie because of their ideology or morality in which they still see themselves as above the law and torture strengthens their hatred and distrust of the interrogator. It most likely strengthens their conviction in their cause as well, which is one motive for a terrorist to lie. Also, if the victim 's world view is entirely shaped around pain, they must also think about how to relieve this pain. Even if it’s to stop the pain for a short period, and if they are capable of lying they will do so.
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Professor Yun
English 201A
10 November 2014
The Benefits of Torture
Over the decades, people have viewed torture has horrifying, inhumane, and excessive. In the movie, Zero Dark Thirty, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, it was mainly used for interrogations to obtain information from the detainees about certain people. In the film, there are many scenes that display the superficial layers of enhanced interrogation and gives the viewers an automatic response that torture is bad. While many viewers see that enhanced interrogation has many bad aspects, did they ever wonder about the good ones? How it helped to save many lives? How it helped to kill Osama bin Laden? Why it’s needed to prevent further troubles? Did people ever consider the role …show more content…
When released, sometimes they are unable to function again in society. They are likely to be psychologically damaged for the rest of their lives, suffering trauma or finding it difficult to trust others. That is still a significant amount of damage to one person’s life and directly impedes their autonomy. So, it is never justified to use utilitarian morality in decision making. In addition, even if the victim does not break, he will still characteristically discover within himself a host of traitorous temptations. The suspect would still have an incentive to lie, for three reasons. Firstly, they would lie because of their ideology or morality in which they still see themselves as above the law and torture strengthens their hatred and distrust of the interrogator. It most likely strengthens their conviction in their cause as well, which is one motive for a terrorist to lie. Also, if the victim 's world view is entirely shaped around pain, they must also think about how to relieve this pain. Even if it’s to stop the pain for a short period, and if they are capable of lying they will do so.
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