Torture is justified

Torture is justified. ____________________________________________ Be it resolved that torture is justified. Being the proposition, representing the government, I defend this subject " In a situation where lives are stake, national security is compromised and when we are left with no other choices to assure our safety and that of our loved ones torture is justified. However, before I move on into the arguments, allow me to define the two key words that are be used: Torture is defined in the Cambridge dictionary as I quote, ""to cause someone pain, often in order to make them tell you something"" Justified-or to justify, means something done for a good and legitimate reason. i) I believe that torture is a choice; This means that the person has a choice to be tortured and has the decision of when the torture is to be started or stopped and if the torture will never even take place. This also means that you have a choice to either reveal the information to the relevant authorities or be tortured until that information is revealed. The Police and Intelligence officers do everything necessary to keep our nation safe. As the government we are not here to defend the torture of innocent civilians. We don't torture people because they are being good citizens, these people were brought into the interrogation rooms because they have affiliations with some sort or terrorists group or they are probably involved. I know some people would be thinking that torture is against morality and is a way of punishing people. Well, morality is subjective, what an American perceive to be moral isn't the same as what an Indian or an African does. However let me remind you, that torture is the last option of decoding information that is of national interest." ii) Torture is used as the last resort in National Security Protection; Torture is tolerable when its necessary and when all the other methods have failed. Tortures is just an advanced interrogation technique that has been found to be very effective. This means that if you get picked up at the airport because you have something suspicious in your passport, obviously there"s going to be a lot of investigations to be done in order to see if you have any affiliations with any terrorist groups before you get to the step of why you are going to be tortured. For example, I know of someone who had something suspicious in his passport when he visited the United States one year ago. Authorities held him in the airport for about 4 hours, they spoke to him like a normal person, and they treated him with courtesy and respect until the issue was resolved. Afterwards he was let go. Therefore, I conclude by saying that torture is absolutely the last step in the process of assuring our national security. iii) Torture takes a lot of bureaucratic processes and a lot of approvals; What I mean is that, we need to get a lot of decision makers to say yes in order for us to proceed to torture. These police and intelligence officers like the CIA are installed in order to serve, protect and ensure law and order in the country, and they will use all means necessary to make certain that this world is a better place for our children and our future. I end with a quote by Jeremy Bentham, ""I wish no one would ever torture, but I"m sure some will if the ticking bomb situation were ever to arise. That"s why I favor torture warrants.""