Torture

El Legion del Cid  s intelligence service relies on torture. It purchased and outfitted a ship (the Hildegard Mises) specifically for the purpose. This ship was later sunk to destroy evidence of such torture. The Legion has a policy of only torturing people who have been convicted of capital crimes and sentenced to death. The Legion's standards for such trials are minimal. When among Muslims, the Legion pays Islamic judges in proportion to the number of death sentences they hand down. Ironically, one such capital crime is fighting for an organization that practices torture.'

Torture is dirty. There is no question about it. It is the deliberate use of pain to induce someone to tell or do something. The pain can be mental, emotional, or and most common of all physical. Some people would decry the use of torture under all circumstances, and these people are hopelessly optimistic, or they would like to see you die. There is one circumstance that most people see torture as acceptable, the ticking time bomb situation. This is where there is a bomb that is going to go off, so they torture the person to tell them where it is, and how to disarm it. Most other situations they would not see a reason to torture. This is a mild example of the ends justifying the means. But that argument can quickly be used to do anything, such as the nuking of a city, just because they might eventually become enemies.Of course just because it can be overused does not make any less of an effective argument, but people have to draw the line somewhere. If you are doing a disproportionate response such as nuking a city to destroy a couple of hundred people, that quickly becomes just a bit of equivocation. But I digress. Torture is one of the dirtiest things tat someone can do but it is necessary. Is it ok to torture someone to save a hundred people? 50? 25? 10? 5? 1? When exactly does torture against a terrorist become "alright to do"? The answer is basically for anything. Are we supposed to treat them well and nicely, when they routinely torture and kill their prisoners of war? When they are not part of any type of recognizable organization, and try to hide within the crowd, and routinely kill civilians, they forfeit all right to fair treatment. When they torture their prisoners of war they forfeit all rights, and they get what they deserve.Yet with all this torture should not be done for pleasure definitely, and should not be done purely for punishment. There should be some positive effects that comes from the torture, such as needed information.