Sixty Percent of Teens Support Torture: Do You?
SodaHead News
2011/04/13 20:00:00
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Torture is in with the young crowd.
In a recent Red Cross poll, nearly 60 percent of young people -- from 12 to 17 -- believe there are times it is acceptable to torture the enemy. This is compared to adults at 42 percent, according to the survey.
"Over the past 10 years, they’ve been exposed to many new conflicts," Isabelle Daoust, who heads ARC’s humanitarian law unit, told The Daily Beast. "But they haven’t been exposed to the rules."
Torture, until this past decade, has rarely been thought of as a tool in war since after World War II. The Geneva Conventions gave explicit instructions to treat prisoners of war humanely.
But the younger generation have been raised on wars and violence throughout the world, beamed into their homes by CNN. Shows like "24" glorify it, and the U.S. government has even sanctioned it, despite the fact that numerous studies have challenged its effectiveness.
Other poll results:
-- 41 percent of the younger respondents believe there are times when it is acceptable for the enemy to torture captured American prisoners, while only 30 percent of adults agree.
-- 51 percent of teens believe there are times when it is acceptable to kill enemy prisoners in retaliation if the enemy has been killing American prisoners, while only 29 percent of adults agree.
In a recent Red Cross poll, nearly 60 percent of young people -- from 12 to 17 -- believe there are times it is acceptable to torture the enemy. This is compared to adults at 42 percent, according to the survey.
"Over the past 10 years, they’ve been exposed to many new conflicts," Isabelle Daoust, who heads ARC’s humanitarian law unit, told The Daily Beast. "But they haven’t been exposed to the rules."
Torture, until this past decade, has rarely been thought of as a tool in war since after World War II. The Geneva Conventions gave explicit instructions to treat prisoners of war humanely.
But the younger generation have been raised on wars and violence throughout the world, beamed into their homes by CNN. Shows like "24" glorify it, and the U.S. government has even sanctioned it, despite the fact that numerous studies have challenged its effectiveness.
Other poll results:
-- 41 percent of the younger respondents believe there are times when it is acceptable for the enemy to torture captured American prisoners, while only 30 percent of adults agree.
-- 51 percent of teens believe there are times when it is acceptable to kill enemy prisoners in retaliation if the enemy has been killing American prisoners, while only 29 percent of adults agree.
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but in a way it's also considered wrong because by doing so you're putting innocent people in line to save the world it's again this innocent people right to live :D
i support a way of life that people can truely believe in wit...
i support a way of life that people can truely believe in without being forced to. where people choose to follow and believe deep down in their heart that it is right. they believe so deeply that they not only would die for it but would be willing to be turtured into madness rather than sacrifice it to an enemy. with something like that to believe in torture seems like a weak and pathetic method and completely ineffectual. if people follow not just by choice but because they truely believe in it then no force is needed what so ever and you are garanteed not to be betrayed by other followers.
Example? Osama Bin Laden, Hitler...those kinds of people.
The point is, torture is both immoral and an unbelievably poor form of interrogation - even internal government documents show that. So in the end, it's better to err on the side of morality, because if you do torture, you probably wont accomplish anything, and more likely than not you will hinder your own attempts to stop an attack.
Torturing them is torturing humans. I'm a teen and am appalled at those statistics...those are really sad.
Under my moral values, torturing is never acceptable.
I am not going to try to convince anyone that it's okay to do. But I will say I support it. If that makes you dislike me. I can understand that.
Torture has been proven not to be as effective as the people propagating it want you to think, and previous interrogation tactics based on control have proven to be less than effective.
Does anyone here know that Abu Musab Al Zarqawi was killed as result of interrogation tactics that do NOT involve breaking the Geneva Conventions or trying to degrade prisoners?
If you tried to get information from an American colonel by breaking his sense of self-respect, do you really think that would work? If you tried to get him to talk by torturing him, do you really think he'd break?
This isn't about having pity for prisoners. If I thought interrogation was the quickest, most effective manner for getting information that would stop this war, I'd be all for it. But the fact is that it is NOT.
And it's horrible to see how many people on here actually think that torture is the way to go. Violence is the last resort of the incompetent, and anyone who really thinks violence is more likely to make someone give up important intel is talking out of their ass. You must use your brains to trick something into giving up what's inside their mind. Beating it out of them has never proven to be consistent in giving up accurate information.
It's a biography written by the interrogator who brought down Al Zarqawi.
...WITHOUT using torture.
You would think, with an achievement like that, people would realize how ineffective torture is on a large scale.