How to get him to reveal the locations or stop them exploding?
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For your assignment, you are to write a 1 and a ½ page paper to a 2 page paper on the below 3 questions. Write me a SHORT essay on the (3) questions below.
Who can be tortured, by whom, when and by what authority?
2. Is torture useful and can it achieve anything? 3. Should there be a limit to torture? Those are the main moral questions in the movie…
The premise is the usual nightmare scenario: A terrorist puts 3 nuclear bombs in 3 big US cities, and threatens to explode them (there is a timer on them) unless his demands are met. The terrorist is actually captured by US agencies, they know that he is the right guy and he has the information and the ability to stop the bomb.
How to get him to reveal the locations or stop them exploding? That is the moral question of the movie.
Now for the sake of the topic, don’t bother with the plausibility of the scenario, just work with it, OK?
In the movie, Samuel L. Jackson plays the main torturer, who wants nothing but results.
For example, he mentions WILLINGNESS. As long as criminals, terrorist, whoever are willing to do bad things, but the good guys (kind of questionable sometimes, but let’s work with it) are not, then the bad guys win. Right or since the good guys held to their ethical standards, the good guys actually won.
If criminals are willing to kill and cause extreme pain to others, but society doesn’t, who wins? If terrorist are willing to use mass murder, but authorities are unwilling to use ANY tools (including torture) to save lives, who wins.
One key point that the movie illustrate is that torturing the main character wasn’t effective. However, the threat of torturing his kids appeared to have worked. After reviewing the movie, what do you think?
Can torture be effective if it is used the right way?
Should you trust what someone says while being tortured, because they say anything (the true or a lie) to stop the pain?
Would Mr. Jackson’s actions had been justified if there was no bomb?
Should the government had given in, and allowed the bomber to give his message to the public?
Governments send in their Special Forces operators to courageous rescue one hostage sometimes, and sometime these individuals are killed or serious wounded. Is one hostage life worth the life of some of the world most highly trained soldiers?
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