Torture in its worldwide sense is to inflict severe pain onto someone, whether physically or mentally. So much that it could be consider inhumane. But yet, there are some cases were people think its ok to torture someone, whether its personal, for the greater good, or humorous. Logically in essence everyone could be consider inhumane. For, anybody could be ready to do harm to someone for what they believe in. In hen sight, I think its way deeper than that; if deep inside anyone could torture why isn't illegal. In this moment I could say torture could be applied universally. A prime example of this is "White Bear" an example from the "Black Mirror" series in which everyone was literally involve in torturing this one woman(psychologically) for a horrific crime she committed, this woman was filming a little girl being horrible tortured by her lover. I would think that they thought they was doing the right thing in their mind. But, any sane person who was watching would say what they was doing was wrong and also say it was justified though. So my question is how could that be. For someone to say it is justiciable to torture someone, yet its inhumane to torture someone. Humans are to selfish we act in what's best for us and that's also how we think. Morals is a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do. Key words "a person's standards of behavior or belief". We flip flop for what's in our best interest. I seen this happen in class were at the being of the film everyone was on this woman side and cared for her, but I soon as they find out why they was doing this to her they flip. It could be because they wanted to feel human or feel that they have values.
But if that was the case the class should have said "both parties was acting inhumane" for its not right to torture in any case. Right?
Thinking broadly I say torture is not an illegal act its just consider one for everyone can feel better about themselves. It allows a sense of peace with oneself along if some other laws. In my mind torture is not a justiciable act for anything it just puts the one being tortured in a immense amount of pain and takes away a little of the person or people doing the torturing.
3 comments:
I think torture is "morally" illegal. It's amazing how we like to align our lives with religion assuming everyone believes in what we worship.
I say this because governments are suppose to be secular, but instead people like to pick and choose what benefits them out of self-interest and not the the everyone as a whole. Similar to my blog post; I think the death penalty is the ultimate torture any human can experience. However, people like to interject Christian laws by quoting scriptures. For example, there is a scripture that supports the fact that Jesus praises mercy and rejects an eye for an eye but on the other hand; Jesus himself says let he who is without sin cast the first stone. As a country, we can't continue confusing God with government.
I don't think that victoria was being tortured at the end to me she looked more like an entertainment than actually being punished because she doesn't remember what happened before she was in the punishment
I agree that both parties were acting inhumane. The woman on White Bear's actions were clearly uncalled for and disgusting. The reaction from the public to support her punishment is understandable, but still classifies as torture.
A similar real-life example of this would be prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay. Their actions in the past definitely deserve punishment. However, they are still human beings who deserve to be treated humanely.
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