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The Ethical Implications Of Terrorism

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Terrorism has been a detrimental issue in our society and, in direct response to the threat, the intelligence community started to use a tactic that proved, to some, to be divisive and controversial: torture. They believed that in order to protect their constituencies and countries they felt that torture, kept relatively private, would effectively root out terrorism and the strategies that they employ. However, as with anything in the age of the Internet, nothing stays quiet for long and many human rights groups have taken an opposition to the use of torture. This has increasingly become more and more controversial of an activity and thus we need to start to look at the ethical implications of torture and how that impacts the future of counter-terrorism and intelligence gathering. Before we delve into ethics we need to set up a base knowledge by looking at the historical implications of torture, how it has evolved, and where that leaves us today. Following that the paper will head towards how torture is used and how effective it is. Finally, after understanding these first, key points we will begin to dive into how utilizing torture does, or does not, affect our ethics. Now, we move towards the history behind torturing terrorism. As is normally an upstanding practice in any research attempt, the history behind utilizing torture as a tactic against terrorism has to be examined before moving on to look at the other aspects behind these actions. Torturing terrorists has been a

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