Tortue

While reading over the article To Torture, or not to Torture I found that I did agree with many of the points that the author Maher Arar made in this piece. I found it interesting when he made the statement “The debate with respect to torture should not be about if it is "good" or "bad", but if it is "moral" or "immoral"”. Though I do feel that in some aspect morality plays into thee feelings that people have towards torture, I do not feel that it is the major question we should be asking over selves when we are trying to take a stance on torture. Rather I think that it needs to be pointed out that the idea of torture is a very foreign and unimaginable concept to the majority of people living in highly developed nations, with sound governments. For this reason it allows for people to take a strong stance on an issue they are not fully educated on. Most rational people would say that it is wrong to harm another person, and I would agree with this statement. Yet, the information that we have obtained from the use of alternative integration methods doesn’t typically have any effect on these people. The information typically is more useful for the government for strategically reasons, indirectly though it is keeping the lives of these people safe. I feel that torture should be used in order to extract this information from these suspects. Yes, human error can happen for example arresting the wrong person, yet this margin of error is slim and the only reason it is brought into the spotlight is because of the media’s glorification of these rare cases. To conclude I feel that as a tactic that can help save lives torture should be permitted.