Should torture be legal? Well yes I do feel that torture should be legal but on the other hand I don’t, because if you child was to be kidnapped and she/he only had one hour to live then of course you would have the person tortured. However I do feel that torture should not be allowed up to a certain extent for example if it was over something petty or if the public was using it the of course no.I do believe that it should not be allowed for the wrong purposes like torturing somebody because of jealousy or something ridiculous similar to that. Also I do believe that torture should not be allowed in specific countries or governments like those that are under the rule of a dictator because then they are able to abuse their power.

 However I do believe torture should be illegal especially during the time of war.

However I do feel that torture should be illegal due to the fact that it can act as a domino effect and start off a chain of revenges taking place and then everybody suffering. Say somebody tortured you’re farther for whatever reason would you not want to torture them back? Then once you torture them wouldn’t one of their relatives want to torture “you”? This also goes onto causing more crime in whatever country if torture was completely legal because then psychopaths are more able to commit a crime and get away with it.

Now well go onto if it should be allowed for the government to use. Well again it depends on the circumstance so if it was under the circumstance of a terror threat then yes of course but if it because of any other reason then, it’s really a double edged sword. Because if you was to choose to torture somebody because of a terror threat then you would get the information far quicker without killing them where as if you was to choose to just sit down and have a chat with them then you wouldn’t necessarily get anything out of them and they would also have the choice to give you information or not.

 But with the torture method there is no way around It. It also depends on what type of torture it is, so if its damage to somebody’s physical state then it wouldn’t be so bad where as if it was to their mental state then it would be much worse because then they can’t live their lives they how they use to ever again, where as if it was physical damage then they can live their lives like a normal person without a bad mental state and will still be able to dress themselves and stay independent.

However technically there is already a legal version of torture which is life imprisonment, which is torture both physically and mentally. It’s physical due to the fact that you are restricted from doing specific things that you could do with your freedom but you cat because you’re in prison for the rest of your life, then it is also mentally damaging because you lose all connection to the outside world. So to be honest there really is no point to legalize torture if you can already put people in prison for life which is worse because it’s both physical and mental torture so that’s just a huge loop hole in the idea. To be honest now I’m just starting to see it as an excuse for the government to damage those who think that what they are doing is right.

 Now I’m not saying that we should just let me blow people up and kill people but what I am saying is that the issue shouldn’t be taken for granted and just an excuse for people to suffer.

However they are doing the wrong thing so of course they deserve to be punished and why shouldn’t they? But you don’t need to use torture when they are going to be put into prison for the rest of their life anyways, it’s just unnecessary you don’t need to damage that person any further then putting them in prison for the rest of their lives because anything more then what they deserve is just out of pure spite.

 You can’t just use “we need to get information urgently” because there is many other ways in getting information out of the person without actually hurting them. Like the government can just give the terrorist a load of empty threats so they get so scarred they just give up. Or they can also lie and say that “if you tell us where the bomb is you won’t have to go to prison and serve time, but instead we’ll just send you back to your country”  and get information like that.

I conclude that no torture shouldn’t be legal for anybody both the public or the government because if the public was legal to use it then the crime rate would rise and if the government was to use it then they would just become really corrupt and be using the torture method at times when not needed, so to be honest nobody deserves to use the torture method because nobody can use it appropriately and responsibly so it would just be better to remove it from everybody rather than just one group  either the  public or the government.