Torture: Justifiable or Not? Torture, as an interrogation device, has been used by many, mostly because its efficiency in extracting information from its victim. But what does torture truly do? Many despises the crude method of itself, many questioned its legitimacy of gathering information. Regardless of its prohibition by the international law, torture is commonly used illegally. For this reason, in this essay I argue that torture should not be justified because it is not trustworthy, in inflicts
It is generally assumed that torture is impermissible, a throwback to a more brutal age. Enlightened societies reject it outright, and regimes suspected of using it risk the wrath of the United States. I believe this attitude is unwise. There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory. Moreover, these situations are moving from the realm of imagination to fact. Death: Suppose a terrorist has hidden an atomic bomb on Manhattan Island which will detonate at noon
sentenced to be hanged. Although she was pardoned until the birth of her child, that same child perished in prison before her execution (Jobe). This case is one of the hundreds to occur during the time of the Witch Trials. Numerous accounts of torture and death are recorded in American history, with these heinous crimes being committed on the exact soil we walk on every day. Based on the evidence used against the supposed
In recent times a lot of people have been converting from carnivorous diets to diets of vegetarianism and veganism, arguing in favour of animal rights. Many people are becoming opposed to consuming meat because of how cruel the process of “factory farming” and mass fishing has become and been revealed to be. Animals are fed growth hormones so to be more easily mass produced, are kept in indecent conditions; small, over-packed confined cages surrounded by their own feces, and beaten. Utilitarianism
taking the Chinese capital city of Nanjing (then called Nanking) in December 1937. After capturing the city, the Japanese soldiers massacred 300,000 out of 600,000 in population, and committed innumerable atrocities, including rape, looting, and the torture and slaughter of women, children, elderly, and other civilians (historyplace.com). Even by wartime standards, such acts were abominable and exceptionally barbarous. This essay will examine various reasons behind the Japanese army’s actions in the
women. It is the duality of men and women that makes our family systems complete, resulting in a smooth flow of life. However, there is a unique line parallel to this smooth flow that at times discriminates one from the other. This discrimination is justified by certain biological and psychological differences among both. To Farida Shaheed, a Pakistani sociologist, in "Women's Experiences of Identity, Religion
Introduction In a perfect world, 19,568, 34,000, and 70,000 are some numbers you’d only find in paychecks rightfully awarded to individuals because of their hard work, but this is far from a perfect world, and something unexpectedly morbid lies behind these numbers. According to the Philippine National Police spokesman, Chief Supt. Dionardo Carlos (2018), 19,568 is the number of homicide cases recorded since the start of the drug war, with 2,235 of them being drug related. These are some estimates
4. Gherao. Gherao in Hindi means to surround. Workers may gherao the members of management by blocking their exits and forcing them to stay inside their cabins just like prisoners. The main object of gherao is to inflict physical and mental torture to the person being gheraoed and hence this weapon disturbs the industrial peace to a great extent. Gheraos have been criticised on both legal and moral grounds. Legally gheraos amount to imposing wrongful restraints on the freedom of some persons to
Women and Children Trafficking: An Immoral Act Susmita Roy (Adak) Assistant Professor in Philosophy & HOD Sitananda College, Nandigram, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India Email - adaksusmita2015@gmail.com Abstract: Women selling business is a great shame on human civilization. This evil practice is not acceptable to any modern cultured society. Trafficking protocol, trafficker is the recruitment, movement or transportation of a person through force, deception, fraud or violence in to a site
business thrived on people getting sicker and sicker and not that people not falling sick at all or being able to treat themselves on their own. Also, a general habit of people to selectively quote & following the religious scriptures blindly is never justified. Christians like to strongly believe that divination and herbology is bad because it is given in the Bible whereas in the same texts “stoning non-virgin women” and other instructions are given and in modern Bible versions these are being edited for