Torture can never be justified, for whatever reasons. Neccessary? Maybe, but never justified. Prisoners of War are good examples of this. They usually never have information that leaders know, and are still tortured for information that they do not have. However, sometimes torture is the only option left, and people use it as a last resort, but some just jump straight ahead to it. Waterbording, shocking, alligator shears, and glasgow smiles and listening to a loop of "Party in the USA" should never be inflicted on a person, no matter what the crime or information needed. Though many leaders have partaken in this, it should not be used anymore. Using these methods of obtaining information is wrong, effective, but wrong. Other techniques can be used to obtain information other than this, like Sodium Pentathol, or extortion.

Torture is cruel and inhumane. No matter what some suspected (or known) terrorist or 'threat to the country' is planning or has done, they do not deserve psychologically and physically damaging treatment. When United States soldiers are tortured in foreign countries, the United States government and people raise hell, so what makes us think that it is condonable for us to commit the same, or even more atrocious, acts, when dealing with soldiers foreign to our country? Just because the technology we have developed for torture is advanced, does not mean the practice itself is not just as barbaric as it was in the Middle Ages.

Everyone is a human being despite whatever horrible mistakes they might make and I believe it is inhumane to harm another being regardless of what they might have done wrong. There are other means of punishment, such as prisons, mental institutions and sometimes, if the crime was great enough, death by injection; all of which are a removal of the person who has done wrong from the society they are damaging.

If you need any sort of information from a person, there are ways of getting it besides tortue. Obtaining information through psychological devices is much more effective and causes less damage than physical harm ever has or will.

In the case of physical harm, some people try to justify it through revenge; an eye-for-an-eye. Torture isn't an appropriate response to any sort of conflict. Causing severe harm to another being makes you just as cruel, just as corrupted and wrong as whomever you are torturing.

Who are we to determine what requires torture and what doesn't?

Any kind of torture is not justified. Torture and punishment are two different things. Punishment is geared towards malicious humans who performed some sort of crime. Torture could be out of pure enjoyment towards harming someone or something, or to get some sort of revenge. For example, during the Holocaust, the Jews were tortured simply because of what they were. They weren't being punished for crimes they committed. It's impossible to justify something that is completely unethical. Even if a human seems to deserve to be tortured, we have no right to inflict this type of pain on them. Torture is never justified.

A person is a person. Even if they are a bad person, he/she is still a person. My opinion is nobody should be tortured in any way or form, reguardless if they have commited a crime or something wrong. I feel that torture is a brutal and unfair way for humans to show the dominance that they obtain.

Nobody in this world deserves torture by our doing. Nobody in this world should be punished by the judgement of mankind. Nobody has the right to torture somebody. Who are we to judge why a person should be brutally tortured? It is not up to us to determine somebody's punishment.

No matter the wrong, no matter how bad we may think a person is, torture should never resolve anything. Who are we to say that some one else deserves to suffer because of their actions? It's not like we're perfect ourselves.

Say a man murders another. What's the penalty? Death. Would that be fair? How would that make you feel like a good person?

When a person applies torture to a situation, the outcome of the situation can be false. For instance if a person where to torture another into saying that they committed a crime, then the person being torture might state it in order to escape the pain. If torture was justified then it would be used in jails which it isn't.

I don't think torture is ever justified. Even if there was a criminal who did heinous things to his victims and tortured them until he killed them, I think he should be punished by death not by torture. The feeling you have when someone does you wrong, the spiteful, vengeful feeling when you want to make them suffer in the way you have should be quieted. It's wrong either way for any one to be put under that.

Torture is wrong. No one deserves to be tortured for any reason what so ever. There are other ptions people can use to punish someone for whatever they did wrong.

Throughout history, people have been tortured for a number of reasons. Whether they broke the law, or the punisher needed them to give up information. They used many different methods, and some were so extreme that the person being tortured was killed. Today, we know better.

There are so many different laws against physical abuse that i think most people have come around to the fact that torture is wrong. I think it would be nearly impossible to make torture not only "right", but legal.

Toturing people isn't the only way to attain information from people. It also doesn't always work. Torture is never justified. Although people may want to kill or hurt the person that hurt them or their families for revenge, I don't think we should always go down to the level of killing them back or hurting them. I think a life long sentence in jail is more better then torture.

Torture is a horrible way of dealing with something or someone. It's never an okay thing to do. A human is still a human no matter what wrong doing they've done. They'll get the justice they deserve somehow. Torture conflicts with growth, or maturing of the mind and/or physically. If someone gets tortured for whatever reason, in the future, they'll never be able to look past it. It'll just remind them that their own kind, people, would do something so low. Either way, the wrong doing they've done will also stay in their minds. With the little conscience, or maybe no conscience at all, their brain will never let the things they've done go.

Despite the fact that torture can be useful for security reasons or helping a nation, it doesn't change the fact of the harm we would cause that person. The "Golden Rule" in kindergarden applies with this concept of torture. No one wants to be tortured. There are plenty other ways to extract needed information.

In some cases, torture is fair but inhumane. If the person is found guilty, we shouldn't punish them by lowering ourselves to their harsh state of mind. We should be better then the enemy.

Torture, by no means, is ever justified. If someone did something wrong that is worth a harsh punishment, a long prison sentence should suffice. Torturing is the most cruel punishment because the people being tortured have to live through their ordeal. This would probably mess them up in the head. Honestly, I would rather die a quick death than endure the multiple beatings that torture brings.

First of all, torture, by definition, could be a simple punch or a twist of a limb because both actions cause cruel, severe pain. Chris Brown, as a well-known example, hurt his own girlfriend seriously, bruising her lips and face, and when you think about it, it wasn't justified. The couple was in an argument that involved both persons, and it was evidently both at fault in the cause of the argument, so there was no good reason for Chris Brown to torture his girlfriend for something he had a part in.

Now in the situation of danger, such as getting robbed or stabbed, torturing the other person still isn't justifiable. A robber is inflicted the same as any other person, and it only puts you in more danger to fight back at him/her.

Torture is not justified because it is cruel and unnecessary. Nothing is solved with torture and I think that nothing comes out by using it. It is unnecessary because so many people use torture in their lives and no one should tortured, they should be punished for what they did wrong.