Also, information extracted from any form of torture cannot be used as evidence in court. There is simply no excpetions. This makes it harder to bring people to justice for any crimes that they did commit. .
Torture treats a person as a thing not a human. Every person whether a terrorist or not is a human and they do have rights. The right of bodily integrity is both moral and legal.The physical and psychological damage it causes is more often then not, permanent. No matter how effective one may think it is, it is still morally wrong. Whether we open the door to torture just a crack, as Kennedy suggests, or keep it firmly shut as an absolute ban, as I advocate, the principle of human dignity and correlated rights remains a transcendently important reason to resist the turn toward torture (David P. Gushee). Dehumanizing a human often makes it easier to torture them. It takes advantage of the body of the victim in order to get what the terrorizer wants out of them. When someone is being tortured you are mistreating someone at a very vulnerable state. This violates the right to remain silent when questioned. The reason why our legal system has so much protection for the accused and the imprisoned is because they are powerless. These people are vulnerable to injustice. When you are tortured you are in the act of injustice. .
Many people may argue that if we accept torture that it can be controlled. That we can set rules and regulations in order to make sure that the torture is not inhumane. Lets say that the government authorizes torture. Even if the government only allows us slight use of torture we .
will still find a way to abuse that power. It is human nature to try to find a way to abuse our power or to get more power over a situation. "We dare not trust ourselves to torture." Or as Gary Haugen recently wrote, "Because the power of the state over detainees is exercised by fallen human beings, that power must be limited by clear boundaries, and individuals exercising such power must be transparently accountable"(David P.
