Justice @ Rhodes

Our discussion on torture made me think of this movie I saw called "Unthinkable" with Samuel L. Jackson which I'm sure some of you have seen. If not here's a link to the movie trailer.

The movie is an example of our "ticking time bomb" scenario in which there are 3 bombs in 3 different locations and only one man knows the location of those bombs. Jackson plays the torturer who goes to any lengths to get the information out, from beatings to cutting off fingers. He even brings in the man's wife and children and ends up slitting his wife's throat, killing her. In the end, the terrorist gives up the location but in the end we find out there was a 4th bomb that he did not tell us about. Although this is just a movie, I think it is a pretty realistic situation in which we see how torture does not work. The man was willing to undergo any form of pain and suffering and even admitted that he deserved it. In the end, many people were saved but innocent people still died and even in the hands of those who were sent there to help. This just goes to show how inhumane torture really is.