Torture

I agree with Erica’s position that we must respect the autonomy of every individual. When a suspected terrorist is in custody and officials think that he/she may have information, torturing the individual may be considered a means to obtain the information needed. However, no one actually knows if this individual has such information. Secondly, if we presume that the terrorist has such information, he/she may not share it before the “ticking bomb” explodes. Therefore, if the terrorist is tortured and remains silent until the bomb explodes, innocent beings are killed and the terrorist was tortured without any benefit to society. We never have reason to torture an individual for information because there is no way that we could know, for certain, that the individual has such information.