Imagine a terrorist threatening the lives and safety of your country has a bomb hidden. There is very strong evidence that they are the perpetrator. What would you do? Now I am quite a young person so my views may differ among others my age, however I want to express my view as an individual. I am for the act of torture. In today’s society it is no longer what we call “secure”. Quite recently in the news I saw France attacked, they stood for “free speech”. Who broke the peace, who broke the bounds of what we call a “society”. I will tell you what has bought about this, terrorism. I may just be young but I know what it is like to lose someone. What if someone tried to take people from you who were important. Would that mean something to others how would you react to this? Maybe its just one person at risk, a child an adult it makes no difference on what we consider the human life to be worth.

Torture is a means against terrorism it protects the civilians, the terrorist wont care if you treat them in the bounds of law because they want to to be treated like they were one of us. Citizens have taken oaths to follow the laws of the society they live in. Terrorists are going against the country outside of the bounds of what we call “right”, they can do whatever they choose. Why should should we treat them as one of our own when they are breaking the social contract. What I believe is that the objective of torture is to preserve life, causing pain to the “perpetrator” could save a life. If we treat them with rights it will only happen again, if I was the terrorist for all I care it is my objective to cause harm. Its because the terrorist know they are treated with rights. Meaning that they can get away without getting hurt while hurting others. Even get away with murder.

If we decided not to torture would could happen in the coming months, weeks even. Demands being made, conflict occurring daily, retaliation because of this, when will it end? With war all these things would break out, a man could drag down a nation to its knees and though the dirt. How much is a nation worth, a nation contains numerous amounts of people. That leads me to what I said as a previous statement “what is the worth of a human life”. I have witnessed what one death is like. What would happen with a hundred or even thousands. How many people will feel what I felt over the one death.

Fear is often used successfully as a motivator: for example, children forced into war in Sierra Leone. The children are afraid to fight the one with the knife at their throat and would rather listen to their demands and follow. If fear is so effective, it can equally be used as a deterrent. What can stop the fear people instil, what protects the human life. Torture. The torturer is the only one effected by this, they would be treated outside of the social contract because of the acts they are conducting. Not only that in this day and age torture is a means to an end, in time this will no longer be used as a weapon, people will understand that terrorism will not work. Its still an on going issue today due to ethical issues. The possibility of causing suffering to one could then bring a stage of peace among people.