Torture

1. Torture is the intentional infliction of extreme physical suffering on some non-consenting, defenseless, other person for the purpose of breaking their will. 2. Torture might be the best possible action in some emergency situation. 3. Morality is principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. 4. To make torture justifiable, there needs to be a reason like saving lives,there is no other way, and threat to life is imminent. 5. Maximalist torture is morally wrong and should not be used in any circumstances. 6. The bare illegality of their act of torture does not render it morally impermissible given it was otherwise morally permissible. 7. In Conclusion, there are some instances of minimally morally justifiable torture. In some cases, torture turns out to be the best case scenario in some situation . When you have concrete information that the person knows something , but not the time to interrogate him , that is one of the emergency situation. Here you don't have to take time a slowly interrogate the person. Torture in this case would be the best option and possibly save many lives. This was only one scenario, there are many other where this same concept would apply. Before applying the use of torture, there needs to be some requirements. As stated in the premises above, there needs to be lives that need to be saved , there are no other ways of getting the information out of them, and the threat to the lives is imminent. If there aren't lives to be saved that there is not other reason for us to torture the other person. Second , torture should only be used as a last resort and never the first no matter the person. If there is a better way of getting the information out of them than that is better. Third , that the risk to lives is unavoidable. This requirement is stating that, we have concrete evidence that the information that the person is withholding is very crucial and it will certainly takes lives of innocent people. The terrorist or anybody else has no reason for taking lives and he is just doing it because he pleases so. One of the example of these requirements are in the torture reading. The one that I am pointing out is the one about the terrorist . In this example, the police knows that the terrorist that they have captured has planted the bomb and the police has the sufficient information from the email and messages that they intercepted from the terrorist's conversation. They also know that they don't have time and the bomb will kill thousands and the cites will be inhabitable. This is a scenario , where the last resort is torture . These are some examples that make torture minimally morally justifiable. There is a huge difference between maximalist torture and minimalist torture. Minimalist torture does the torture the humane way and not take it too far and on the other hand maximalist does the exact opposite. After a minimalist torture is performed on you, you survive the trauma and you can move on with you lives. Maximalist torture does takes it too far and even if you survive the torture physically, your mental state is broken. Maximalist torture make the victim of torture unable to continue with their lives. This type of torture is taking it too far. After a torture , a new identity should be given to the torture victim, so that the people who he betrayed cannot kill him or capture him. Minimalist morally justifiable torture is the only right type of torture. One argument that is used against the pro side is that it is illegal. The bare illegality of their act of torture does not render it morally impermissible given it was otherwise morally permissible. Otherwise, just because it is illegal to torture somebody, it doesn't make it morally impermissible. As I said earlier, there are some situation where torture is the last resort and it could save thousands of lives. You could either choose to torture a person who is about to kill thousands or watch as many people die. So the point is that, there are some instances of minimally morally justifiable torture.