Law-makers breaking the law: torture as a justified interrogation technique?
Even when absolutely condemning
the act of torture, it is still important to do this for the right reasons. There are enough
legal and ethical grounds to do so. The most evident grounded reason is probably the
fact that it harms the dignity of a human being. However, this argument convinces some
more than others.
The consequential idea that a small evil is allowed to avoid a bigger evil doesn't uphold
any valid norms or values but emphasizes the justness of the outcome. This gives room
to place truth and morality aside, because the goal is set and the means to obtain it serve
the purpose of the goal. A great flaw that arises here though is what is called the
association fallacy. What can happen according to such reasoning is that an incorrect
understanding of a situation causes for a certain new behaviour, which makes the
original incorrect understanding true. The believer of the original understanding will
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