Is Torture ever justified?



Is Torture ever justified?

Introduction

There is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed - one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. Through the horrific acts of torture, one's body changes from the once sacred life-dwelling 'temple' into an instrument used merely to inflict severe physical pain in the hope of gaining much needed information or simply to mete out punishment or coercion. Torture results in varying responses and reactions both during and after these displays of physical and intangible emotional and mental violence. None of ...