Morality and Interrogation

Let's try it again.

Toture is wrong. Torture is always wrong.

Below is a quote from the ASTT site (Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma.)


"It is the psychological effects which may, in the long run, be most damaging to the survivor. Whether it be recurrent nightmares, the inability to sleep or the fear of sleep, flashbacks, chronic anxiety, feelings of betrayal, the inability to trust any other person, deliberate self injury, violent behaviors, substance abuse, depression, paranoia or anxiety, these psychological consequences are not only on survivors but on their families, friends and communities as well. "
www.astt.org/AboutTorture.htm

Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma

More information can be found at the Amnesty International Site.

One thing to realize is that when we permit torture anywhere of anyone, we will ultimately realize the impact of it ourselves.

People who are given the duty of tormenting others, people who work in an environment where they have to witness and accept that other people are being tortured are changed as much as the victims of the torture. When something is an acceptable practice, people become desensitized to it. The attitudes go home with them.

Robin Hobb