The Pros And Cons Of Torture

Torture has been around for thousands of years, and it has always been a debate whether that it is a good or a bad thing. Most people assume that it is always an unbearable and harmful thing, when in fact that is not always the case. While many forms of torture are extremely painful and drawn out, there are others that are really quite harmless. To this day,some people believe that forms of torture that do not result in death or permanent injuries should become legal once again, while others have a very strong opinion that it should forever remain illegal.

Many people have used torture throughout the years as a way of getting information out of people. I believe that the right kind of torture should be legal to be able to get information out of people. If you can save more lives by torturing someone who plans on killing multiple people, then why should good morals stop you from doing so? It would be bad for you not to try to stop him and get the information. While people still believe that torture is bad in all ways, I believe that the right kind of torture is pretty good.

Torture itself can be really gruesome, and many techniques are found to have a relation to the medieval

times and most of the torture back then ended up in death. Torture is like the brazen bull, where they put the person being tortured inside a brass bull and block the door hatch. Then they put a fire under the bull and just let you cook alive. This torture was used in the mid-evil times. There were also fast tortures, like the Guillotine. “Since the decapitation was considered to be an instant and painless event, it was often considered the most humane method of execution” (Pegg).
In 520 AD, the Romans considered torture the “highest form of truth” (Green). They believed that information that was not freely given had to sometimes be taken instead. Torture does not always end in death. One example of this is the Chinese Water Torture. It sounds awful, but further research made it seem quite harmless and made me believe that it could possibly become legal in certain circumstance. It consists of someone being strapped down to a table where they are restrained from moving. Next, water is dripped on the forehead of the person who is being tortured. The water is dripped slow enough to make the person go crazy, and they will eventually give up any information that may have. The place on the forehead where the water is dripped will get really raw and sore, but it will not kill the person.
The Chinese Water torture is a psychological torture, meaning it messes with your mind.

White Torture is psychological torture, which includes many other tortures such as Sensory Deprivation which is when someone is forced to lose a sense. This can be done in many different ways such as putting a blindfold over someone’s eyes, plugging up someone’s ears so they can’t hear, and even the use of drugs to lose sense of taste and smell. Sensory Deprivation tanks are something people use to feel good and relax while sleeping. These tanks are like enclosed tanning beds. They are beds that completely close and are filled with room temperature water with Epsom salt in it. The person lays naked in the water, closes the lid, and tries to relax in the dark. Cienna Madrid talks about her

experience:
The water is delightfully buoyant. It's a struggle to hold your arms under the water. Lying still feels almost like flying, which is to say, euphoric. And the nice people at the front desk tell you how to avoid getting salt in your eyes and ears. They tell you to count to 300 and they explain the various poses you can float in for optimal relaxation. But they do not warn you about the paranoia (Madrid).
What she experienced when the blue light went off in the bed was a terrible fear of snakes. She felt that snakes were all around her and was terrified. She began to hallucinate that hundreds of tiny little snakes were crawling all over her and this only took but a couple minutes to feel this way, which is even less time it takes for the Chinese Water torture to take effect. I am for this torture because it does not harm anyone, but it does make them crazy.
Madrid explained later that this was a slightly enjoyable thing to do because it helped her sleep for the next couple of days. But while she was in the tank, so could not stand it. “Floating makes you see crazy shit and sleep great for days” (Gonzalez, Madrid). Through a lot of research, the isolation tank seems to actually be good for the mind and body. There are different way for the isolation tank to be used, but the relaxation part of it is where you just float in water with a ton a Epson salt in it, and you are sitting in a pitch black, sound proof tank. Basically all your senses are now gone and it is so quiet in there that you can hear your muscles tense. Cienna Madrid wrote “they do not warn you about the paranoia”. It is relaxing, but it can also make you lose your mind, especially when you get your legs and arms strapped in where you cannot move hem. “Other investigations have demonstrated that deprivation of even one form of sensory input can have hallucinatory effects” (Gonzalez). People who have gone through this process typically have hallucinations of some sort. Some have even reported to witness extraterrestrial creatures.