This week, our class watched a TV episode called “white
bear.” It centers on a girl who is being tortured for a crime she committed. I
thought this gave very interesting insight into whether torture is okay to do
or not. It seemed like most of the people in the class were disgusted when they
found out the terrifying situations the girl had to go through were all staged
as a punishment for kidnapping a child. I have never been supportive of
punishing people by torturing them, no matter what crime was committed. This is
because I believe torture takes away the humanity of the person, which is
something I believe should never be allowed under any circumstances. Everyone
deserves to retain their humanity. I feel some people may be okay with torture
because the person is seeing the human in front of them as a personification of
the crime they committed, rather than a person. Seeing the torture from the
perspective of the girl and getting to watch her go through the same sequence
of events with the same amount of knowledge of what’s going on allows us to
empathize her and see her as an individual human life rather than the
personification of a kidnapper. I wonder if this episode had anyone rethink
what they thought about torture and whether it is justified.
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