Torture vs. Interrogation

[Ric]

Originally Posted by Professor S

My questions is whether or not waterboarding is truly defineable torture seeing that it doesn't really fall into the definitions if the detainees are told they will not be killed before hand. To me it's a grey area to be exploited in very rare and extreme situations if it's proven to work.

To me what that says is if you tell the captive what you are going to do to them first then it's not torture. So if I had a captive and said I am gonna start cutting your nuts off untill you tell me what I want to know then done it then it's not torture, too extreme? what if I said I would punch them in the face until they told me what I wanted to know, then done it, would that not be torture because I told them first?

I honestly believe waterboarding is torture. Do you honestly believe prisoners are told what is going to happen first? If they were they would just endure it. If they dont know then they will fear they might drown and so will be more likely confess.