Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Can you not?



The short film titled White Bear, is a psychological thriller that introduces a morally questionable punishment for criminals. This form of criminal punishment is designed to psychologically torture convicted criminals at a “Justice Theme park.” Individuals pay to help convince these criminals that the psychotic events the criminal is facing is reality. At the end of the psychotic torture, the criminal once again has their memory erased and must go through the same torturous acts every day. This form of punishment, I believe, is not morally good. It is not morally good because it is a contradiction. Criminal acts happen every day. Criminals are caught every day. But to place a human being convicted of a crime in a park to be psychologically experimented with, is inhumane. What this punishment method does is torture an individual for the crimes they have committed that has harmed others. But the people paying to scare these criminals because of their actions, are doing the exact same thing, they are watching someone be harmed for pleasure, by psychologically harming them. It is a contradiction to have a society that has laws to protect its citizens, be broken by a criminal, but then having the public think it is okay to treat humans this way. The spectators are supposed to find enjoyment from this torture, which is the most disturbing thought. We are all humans, we need to have respect for human life. Psychological torture should never, ever, be considered a punishable option.

1 comment:

  1. I absolutely agree with your point that there is something particularly sinister in inflicting this kinds of psychological torture on a person . What I found especially shocking, as you mentioned in the post, is that the people orchestrating this torture are doing so in a warped sense of justice, while the people attending Justice Park are doing so for the sake of entertainment. I think you would be happy to know that earlier this year the American Psychological Association (APA) took a stand against using psychologists and psychological research for the purpose of interrogative torture.

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