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How common is the use of torture? -- Is torture morally wrong? -- Is torture an effective interrogation technique -- What should be the U.S. policy on torture? Torture is a worldwide problem / Both civilized and less civilized countries use torture techniques / Torture continues to be a problem in Asia / Torture is still common in Brazil / Police in India frequently use torture / Al Qaeda terrorists carried on Saddam Hussein's gruesome torture techniques in Iraq / Torture is morally reprehensible / Torture is always morally wrong / People around the world agree that torture is immoral / torture can be a moral means of saving lives / Torture is moral when inflicted for a greater good / Coercion at Guantánamo is not torture and is necessary / Torture is sometimes effective / Torture has a place in the war on terror / Torture works as a social control / It is a myth that torture works / Torture is neither justified nor effective / Torture ruins evidence that could be used to prosecute terrorists / History shows torutre does not obtain the truth / Stress techniques must be authorized in the War on Terror / The United States should stop all forms of torture / Torture should be made legal in extreme situations / Torture should not be legally sanctioned / The United States should categorically ban torture but consider rare exceptions / The United States should not attempt to codify exceptions to a ban on torture / Human Rights Watch -- Lisa Hajjar -- Basil Fernando -- Brazzil magazine -- Rama Lakshmi -- Entifadh Qanbar -- Kim Petersen -- David P. Gushee -- Mirela Xanthaki -- Mirko Bagaric -- Patrick J. Buchanan -- Aryeh Spero -- Alan Dershowitz -- Nicholas Davis -- Naomi Klein -- Anne Applebaum -- Mick Smith -- Phillip Carter -- Robert Fisk -- Heather Mac Donald -- Washington Monthly -- Alan M. Dershowitz -- Jack Rabbit -- Albert Mohler -- Mark Bowden.
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