Waterboarding, and the ethics of Torture
Dr. Hesham Hassaballa discusses the recent debates around the use of the waterboarding technique to extract information from prisoners. While politicians and pundits continue to argue the definition of what constitutes torture, the doctor questions the very humanity of even considering such an act.
It would be fun, wouldn’t it, to watch him squirm and scream in pain and agony, begging us to stop “torturing” him. It would be fun, wouldn’t it, to watch him squeal like a stuck pig? It would be fun, wouldn’t it, to make him wail, naked, in the fetal position on the floor for hours at a time, all in the name, of course, of “gathering life-saving intelligence”? It would be fun, wouldn’t it?
But, it would not be human. It would not be moral. It would not be American. It would not be who we are as a people.
When humans degrade themselves upto the level of animals then they exhibit animal beahaviour an all of their routins