There is horrid things that go round and round on this earth. Torture wouldn't alleviate any of it. Mahatma Gandhi once said an eye for an eye makes the world go blind, and making a criminal suffer wouldn't give justice. They would only feel slight regret because they would be feeling immense pain...but it wouldn't make them truly apologetic for their wrongs. I believe there is far better ways in this day and age to serve justice than harming someones health.

Torture is not good, if you were to torture someone that would make you a really bad person. And just think about it you torture some one now but what goes around comes around. sooner or later somethng similar in pain will happen to the person that tortures the victim.

No. If you were that person that was getting tortured, would you like to get tortured? I know I wouldn't want to .

Torute is cruel and unusual punishment that is never necessary, I understand that people do bad things that should never go unsolved, but don't acquiesce to the abominable effects or ways of torture. It may have everlasting, inadequate, effects on a person.

I do not think that torture is justified, because there are other forms of punishment and forms to get your point across. For example, when you are mad at someone, you do not have to torture someone by ignoring them or some other torture, you can instead talk it out with them. Torture doesn't have to be the solution to a problem.

Torture to me is an unhumane and savage way to punish a persons wrong doing. Torture to me is more like revenge than a punishment. Torturing someone could be just as bad or worse than that persons wrong doing. You get on the same level as the criminal so you are both in my eyes considered criminals. There are other ways to punish someone and it gives them the same message.

Torture is a very cruel unacceptable punishment. It doesn't matter if you hate that persons living guts you should never treat anyone like that. You treat others as you would want to be treated.

To torture someone is to do something incredibly horrible to another person. "You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind" said Gandhi which I believe is ture. Just because you can torture someone doesn't mean that the ends justify the means. Torturing people doesn't really give someone justification to hurt a person.

I do not think that torture is justified because, you should never want to intentionally hurt someone. To me when you torture someone your just being cruel and heartless. If you can torture someone than you should be able to be tortured back.

In simple words torture is slavery. Chaining or holding someone down or on to something against their own will is wrong. Reason being is how would you feel if that was you being beaten and bruised just for an answer? I see no reason why someone should be mutilated till they're on verge of death. It is insanely and inhumanely injust.

We are all human beings and we should treat each other like that. For example the Bush administration faced alot of heat on the issue of water-boarding of "alleged" terror suspects. No matter what they've done or what they're suspected of doing because in the end we're all human.

Well in some cases I would have to say yes but it also depends on what type of torture. I mean lets just say some one murdered your whole family and didnt go to jail for some odd reason that the court wont explain, wouldnt you want them to suffer the way your family did? Of corse you would who wouldn't cause by no means should the crime go unjust but that would really just make you no diffrent from them just think of how devastated an hurt you and the rest of your loved one's were. No one should feel that pain

It is common saying "Treat poeple how you wanted to be treated," but it is a double standard really. The role of the bigger person has to come in some where. If a person disrespected you, then most people would say be disrespectful back, but someone always has to be the nice bigger person. In the since torture is a double standard as well, it can be justified if a person murders your family and they should suffer in prison, but if a person didnt hurt anyone physically they shouldn't be harmed physically. Emotional torure though can be justified because the person that hurt you should know how you feel if they hurt you on purpose. People can be vindictive and self-obsorbed, so sometimes yes it okay but physical torture is not okay. Yes the terriost thing is a good point but physical torture is never a right way to handle things.