Torture is necessary in order to protect lives. In order to protect the lives of the innocent, you would need to do everything you can to protect a country’s citizens. However in some circumstances, like in a hypothetical situation when information is needed to save the lives of the innocent, the acts of torture are justifiable.

In this scenario I would like you to imagine a “Ticking Time-Bomb Scenario”. There is a device that will explode in a civil area somewhere unknown very soon. The person who ignites the explosive is the only one who knows of its location. That terrorist is being held by the police. The interrogators have overwhelming evidence to believe that they have the right man. They can check anything he says to see if he is misleading them. This is because of the other circumstantial evidence they have gathered.  He is declining to acknowledge the surroundings  of the bomb under interrogation.

Torture is required for these situations in need of information for example in the ticking “Ticking-Time Bomb Scenario”. Torture is possibly the only option for receiving important information when innocent civilians depend on it. It may lead to death but killing one guilty life will save many innocent lives.

I would understand why Torture would be seen as bad because you are forcing someone to do something by hurting them. Are there other ways of retrieving information from the bomber, instead of torture? No one has the right to harm someone else by emotional or physical actions.

Torture should not be taken lightly, as it is seen as an option to interrogate people for information. It may be terrible, although there are bad people in the world with tormenting intentions. So for torturing bad people to save the lives of the innocent, there may be no justification for it, but sometimes it is necessary in life. The horrible people in the world have no morals but in a ticking time scenario morals, laws and rules are meaningless and are not a priority.

If someone you love was taken from you and the kidnapper was in your possession, you would to not be able to gain any information without the use of some kind of torture. It would be the preferred option, and possibly the only option in order to save and protect your loved ones. So when it comes to love anything can happen, even though sometimes you have to go over the limits and surpass the law.

Despite the fact that torture is morally wrong, compared to what the terrorists do to soldiers it is still more humane. The torture that is given to a suspected terrorist would be water boarding. Waterboarding involves strapping a person to an inclined board and repeatedly throwing water on his face giving him the psychological feeling of him drowning. The suspected terrorist is still alive, on the other hand the terrorists behead soldiers which is much worse that water-boarding. Therefore the acts of torture are not as harsh as those in terrorism. Torture is not as bad as what the terrorists might do. If they do torture the suspected terrorists then this will stop them beheading soldiers.

To conclude, torture can never be justified but sometimes it may be necessary.