Torture: Morality and Terrorist

In the article The Truth about Torture, Charles Krauthammer considers the check mark time bomb problem and argues that deformation is sometimes not scarcely morally permissible, just now morally necessary. Krauthammer uses the example of terrorists in his example, what if we captured a terrorist with knowledge of an attack and the knowledge of future attacks do we gouge him for his information? Or simply just fix him locked up? (Krauthammer 2). Utilitarian considerations be ample to justify using cruel actions against terrorists to extract confessions.Even though is cruel to torment one to extract information, it is our duty as citizens to maintain the felicity as a whole and do what is necessary to sustain lives. Utilitarianism is a of import normative moral theory, which state the moral value of an action is primed(p) by the most happiness or utility it compels (Mill 461). If we use this translation to analyze the case, then yes it is sufficient to use cruel actions such as peeboarding and sodium pentathol injections on terrorists to extract information.Waterboarding is a terrifying and deeply f rightlyful torture technique in which the prisoner has his face exposed to water in a way that gives the feeling of dr makeing (Krauthammer 3). Sodium pentathol injection is a sedative drug its purpose is to disinhibit the higher brain centres to make someone more likely to share their information (Krauthammer 3). In parts of Asia, torture is embedded in the criminal justice system (Wong 1). So in that respect is no concern as to why torture cant be used in the example of the terrorist. By torturing the terrorist, we are able to extract information from him, thus doing what is morally right and save lives.Maintaining and creating happiness among the whole is more important just the happiness of a person. If that is the case then wouldnt torturing the terrorist be the right function to do? Torturing him would make the world a more nonaggressive pl ace and also letting terrorists know that we are not frighten of them and well do whatever it takes to spoil their well-thought-out plans. Utilitarianism allows for violations of justice. This is one of those violations because were torturing for the bully of humankind and fighting off evil at the same time.Some king argue torturing someone is morally maltreat, even though is for a good cause. The example of waterboarding and sodium pentathol injection is cruel and non-humane. This is because both these examples deflower basic human rights. Injecting sodium pentathol into another(prenominal) human is usually against their own will, let alone extracting information from them without their consent. Utilitarianism holds that actions tend to help promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce unhappiness (Mill 462). In this case, wouldnt we create unhappiness for the terrorist because he is suffering?Saving lives is one thing, but in that location must be better ways of extracti ng information than to torture another human. With regards to torture on the terrorist, is important to note that utilitarian maintain that for each one persons happiness is to be weighted equally and that happiness is pleasure and the absence of pain (Mill 469). Torturing then would be the right thing to do because happiness out-weight unhappiness. More people will be upset and devastated if a terrorist attack did happen and we choose not to torture the terrorist to extract information. If the terrorist attack did not go as planned, so what?The terrorist wouldnt be devastated and be sad as much as we would have to deal with the death of innocent people. The terrorist will probably just conceptualize of a better plan and hope itll execute to perfection the following time. Is necessary to be cruel and torture a terrorist to get information, but on one condition, if happiness out-weight unhappiness. This is the case when we know lives can be saved by means of torture. Torture is cr uel, with examples such as injections of sodium pentathol and waterboarding, but sometimes is needed to help do whats trounce for humankind.Bibliography -Wong Kai-shing. The Problem of Torture in Chinas Criminal Justice System http//www. hrsolidarity. force out/mainfile. php/2005vol15no05/2451/ Krauthammer, Charles. The Truth about Torture http//www. weeklystandard. com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/400rhqav. asp? scallywag=3 -Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism. In Introduction to Philosophy Classical and modern Readings, Fifth Edition. Eds JohnPerry, Michael Bratman and John Martin Fischer. New York, NY Oxford University press, 2010. Pp. 457-476.