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Torture
Torture is the infliction of severe physical pain, psychological pain, and possibly injury to a person or other living being on purpose. In most cases, the victim is restrained and unable to resist the violence of the perpetrator. Torture has been used and continues to be used by individuals, organizations, and governments, regardless of numerous governments' and international organizations' laws opposing torture. This is because there are numerous motives for torture such as: punishment, revenge, political re-education, deterrence, interrogation or coercion of the victim or a third party, or simply the sadistic gratification of those carrying out or observing the torture.
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The navy seal way of making you able to swim in the coldest of waters
Is it normal to torture your friend?
no! you should show your friend love. how would you feel if you were tortured by your friend!
What type of torture used for those accused of witch craft in the Salem witch trials?
Torture was no utilized for getting confessions during the Salem Witch Trials.
How many people died under US torture?
Since September 11, 2001 no one is known to have been killed while under interrogation or any controversial interrogation methods that some may consider torture. Torture is against every branches field manual, United States law, the Geneva Convention, UN Human Rights laws, and the United States military law of armed conflict and rules of engagement. In July, 2007 Former President Bush signed an executive order to not torture terror suspects to underscore this as well, although waterboarding was not included in the torture methods described. But no one is reported to have been killed by waterboarding and CIA documents show that only three terror suspects have received waterboarding since 9/11.
What is a sentence for the word torture?
Homework on a subject you enjoy can be pleasant; homework on a subject you find too difficult can be torture.
Since he discovered he was allergic to chocolate, watching someone eating chocolate cake is torture for him.
The pain she experienced from her injury was torture until the paramedics gave her quick pain relief.
Torture as a means of interrogating people is illegal in most civilized countries.
How do you torture the guy in sniper assassin 3?
kick him in the gut and swing the lamp repeatedly...then ask him a question.
just keep swinging lamp and punch and kick
Because most people find pain to be unbearable, they will give up information in order to end the pain caused by torture.
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The assumption made in the question is doubtful. The victim may in fact simply provide the 'information' that he/she thinks that the torturer wants.
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Torture is effective because governments use it as an interrogation technique to provide information that will save thousands of lives, as well as the freedoms our country fought for. The one thing everyone holds dear to their heart is their life. When they have no possesions, no home, all they have left if their life. It's effective because most people will save their life in order to give up information.
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I've spent a bit of time researching the question online and determined the apparent consensus is that torture, indeed, yields "information" of a highly variable (and thus suspect) quality. Nation states and other groups may use torture for this reason alone; simply to stimulate a prisoner into talking about a desired subject matter. But, based on accounts of experienced interrogators, there seems to be a very low degree of truth in the information acquired through torture - many prisoners preferring to simply tell the interrogators what they want to hear (perhaps given the reality that telling the truth is absolutely no guarantee the torture stops). It should be noted the body of experienced interrogators seemed to hold that skilled psychological interrogation is the preferred method due a better quality of information being offered voluntarily.
How did the Japanese torture the Chinese?
I got a better answer.I'm Singaporean and learning History in school and currently learning about this.There are a lot of torture ways,I'll list them out for you,I don't know everything but I'll list what I know =)
1) Stuffs a hose into a person's mouth then fill the person's stomach with water till it's bloated then jump on the stomach and the stomach bursts then the intestines and internal organs flies out.Creepy right!
2) They place some mice under a metal cover on your stomach then heat it and then when it's hot then the mice will start to scratch the person's stomach until it's full of wholes and won't stop till they find a way out or when the Japanese stops.Eew
3) They hang you onto something I don't know what then place a growing bamboo under you and wait for it to grow until it pierces through your whole body 0.0
4 ) This one a little bit disgusting.They use a certain kind of nail clipper to pluck off your nails.Then when it's pluck off it bleeds right? After that they sprinkle salt and vinegar on the wound...OMG then it will start to get infected and rot but the worse is that after every 3 or 4 days they will come back and sprinkle some more till the fingers rot away...
There's still a lot,like raping and if you come past a Japanese soldier and don't greet them then off you go to heaven.If you're not Singaporean I suggest you come to Singapore and learn about our history,its interesting and the place here is very nice =)
Genghis Khan killed but he banned the use of torture and imprisonment.
Newest forms of torture in the world?
The newer forms of torture use medical procedures and drugs to produce intense physical pain and/or physiological distress without any continued effort.
'Torturing' is the act/crime of causing either emotional, mental or physical pain. It can be inflicted upon a person or animal, but is most commonly used as a method for gaining information or intelligence. However, there are legal restrictions on it nowadays.
What is the meaning of torture?
to me, torture means to inflect as much pain as possible while keeping the poor victim alive as long as possible. If you want to know what i think the worst possible torture is, is seeing your family being tortured to death, or, this is my nightmare, but anyways, seeing the two people you love most in the world, you girlfriend, mom, sister, grandma, best friend, etc., and seeing them hanging over a big bowl of acid, and you have to choose which one lives, and which one dies. Sad, isn't it? i almost cry at the thought of my mom and brother there because i know my mom will say to let my brother live, then i would have to choose... Torture is about the torturer not the subject. Torture is about control over a person, a group of people, or a situation. Dictionary.com defines torture as "the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty." This is a literal definition, but it is only a partial one, and is not exactly correct. Recent studies examining the torturers of the past, from the Khmer Rouge Chief Interrogator at S-21 (Kaing Guek Eav) to those of the Stalin regime and Nazi Germany, new light has been shed to illuminate the fact that torturers are not the sadists they were formerly believed to be. In fact, hundreds of interviews and years of study show that sadism is antithetical to the goals of torture. Torture is an act or series of acts used for causing pain, but the pain is not always physical. The pain can be emotional, mental or psychological, spiritual, intellectual, ethical, moral, or focused on any of the various visceral or atavistic perceptions or elements of humans. Torture is a commen event, even in the developed countries of the world today. It is not just used against terror subjects in the US or by its allies. It is used by every law enforcement agency in the world; those in the US and other similar nations just hide it better than most. This is not conjecture; this is personal experience. The goal of torture may be for vengeance, it can be borne of paranoia, it can spring from a twisted sense of justice. Consider for a moment that a group of individuals plan for and attack a civilian target. They kill thousands of people, and destroy billions of dollars of property, crippling a portion of that nation's economy. Those involved who do not die in the attack are captured. Clear evidence exists to connect the prisoners to the act. History irrefutably shows that torture interrogations do not provide factual confessions--this is a point of science. What is then the point of torturing these prisoners? Is it to make them suffer before execution, pure vengeance? Vengeance is a hollow victory. The manner of exectution and the activities leading up to it speak more for the executioner than the condemned. If a man is condemned, his death is the goal; dead is dead. Why prolong the outcome? What purpose does it serve? Not justice. That is satisfied in the death of the condemned. An attempt at retribution for the suffering caused by the condemned person? That is satisfied by the sentence and the execution. Torture, in what ever form, by what ever means, serves one purpose. Unfortunately, that purpose can only be known by the torturer; it is too personal for third party speculation.
Why do people torture other people?
Torture is inflicting pain on an enemy and is usually applied in order to obtain information from them. A firing squad or a guillotine is not really torture; but it could be considered as murder or as a war crime.
Occasionally it is applied as a demonstration to your enemy that you are willing to fight them. You torture one of them as an example to the rest. In other words, it is sometimes also used to terrify opponents, especially in dictatorships and to terrorize resistance organizations in occupied countries.
Sometimes torture is done as retribution for the acts committed against you or your countrymen.
The Holocaust was not considered torture for most of them. The German either killed their victims or made them work as slave labor with little food. That is not the same as torture.
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The whole subject is tricky and fraught. Since World War 2 there has been a growing tendency to distinguish between torture and violations of human rights. For example, European law on human rights distinguishes between:
- Torture (the kinds of things the Inquisition used to do, or in modern contexts things like electric shocks to the genitals).
- Inhuman and degrading treatment. (This would include things like transporting people in cattle trucks for long periods, without any food or drink and without adequate sanitation, also brutal interrogation that falls short of torture, for example, using stress positions and the like).
- Degrading treatment (birching and whipping, systematic public humiliation).
Obviously, #2 is a broad category.
As for motives for inhuman treatment, Amnesty International and other charities have recently stressed the role of sheer hatred (of political opponents) in some countries - something that is often overlooked, and the desire of many dictatorships to terrorize real and imaginary opponents.
Why did middle age people torture?
Because they thoght it was fun to watch people suffer. Most of them really did something but some didnt.
What is the government's euphemism for torture?
The US government often refers to "enhanced interrogation techniques" as a method to discuss torture without using that word.
What is the difference between authority and power as it relates to torture?
Power is the ability to get things done by others. The principle of power is to punish and reward. Power can exist with or without authority. For instance an armed robber has power but no authority. Whereas authority is the power to enforce law and take command, and to expect obedience from those without authority. Authority can exist with or without power, for example a teacher has authority over the pupils but no real power. Steven Lukes states that there is three dimensions of power, decision, non decision making and manipulating desires. In parliament when a law is being discussed by MP's and any other form of political group there must be a body which has power so that they can actually come to a decision.
Authority is basically the right to do something whereas power is the ability to do it or get it done, it can be said that authority is a form of legitimate power (CIMA,2010 Entreprise Management)
Authority is the ability to exercise power for enforcement. Power is the actual wielding of the authority.
What were nineteenth century torture devices?
Unless one counts the then novel execution device- the Electric Chair ( gas chambers did not come into use until AFTER 1900) They were not used. Much was made of reform of judicial review, and as is talked of today peace under law- as opposed to Might Makes Right. Torture was generally either banned or not talked about openly, unlike capital punishment, which took various forms.
What was the Catherine wheel originally used for?
It was originally named after Saint Catherine of Alexandria, who was condemned to be tortured on a wheel and died in the year 307.
Who are five people that were hung drawn and quartered?
A number of people were hung, drawn, and quartered in the Middle Ages and later in history. Among these were John Ball, Thomas Usk, Frances Dereham, Thomas Culpepper, and Thomas Wyatt.
