Initial thoughts about topic:
I believe tough interrogations are necessary in today’s world. Under pressure, most guilty people break down and tell the truth. It shouldn’t bother innocent people because they shouldn’t have anything to hide. Tough interrogations show the interrogators certain things to look for in people who lie or tell the truth. Ones who are guilty usually don’t make eye contact and are really fidgety. The more pressure you put on a guilty person , the more they will feel the need to break down and tell the truth.
Thoughts after hearing debate:
I was speechless after watching the whole debate. I didn’t know all of that was going on. When I read the topic of the debate I figured it just meant interrogators talking intensely to the subjects. I didn’t realize they were doing other things to figure out the truth from lies. I don’t even know which side to believe now because they both brought up good points. Some facts seemed sketchy and I don’t know if I believe what some of the debaters said. Some of the things were harsh and needed to be said. Now, after hearing the whole thing, I believe tough interrogations are necessary but not ones that are torturing. This torturing that they say is going on is very cruel. I cannot imagine those things being done to my family or me. If these things are true, something has to change. We cannot torture human beings just to get information out of them. I believe there should be another way to receive information from people who may know things. Killing innocent people just to find out the truth is horrible to hear and watch. I cannot believe these things are going on throughout the world today. This info could be life-saving as one of the debaters said, but I do not think it is worth the harsh punishment and torture. People should not be allowed to abuse the interrogation rules. The side for tough interrogations didn’t exactly have real facts like the opposite side did. The debaters who were against the tough interrogations had many more stories and facts in their speeches. People listen to these facts and assume they are real. I just hope these things they said were true. I don’t know who would lie about that, so hopefully they were all being truthful. In the end, I believe all of the debaters came together and decided they all wanted some sort of effective means of receiving crucial information. Some of the debaters for tough interrogations didn’t seem to care that those harsh things were going on. They seemed to brush it aside and divert the conversation to something else entirely. This is one reason why I changed my mind in the end. I didn’t feel like they had enough information to persuade me that tough interrogations were okay in the world. One person for it stated that people were tortured in every single war. I believe this should not happen anymore. It should end right now. I believe you do learn as much from lying as you do from the truth. The studies that one debater talked about showed that innocent people are dying because we want to find out who is lying. Some people are good at lying; therefore, we don’t get anywhere and innocent people are dying because of it. I believe this should stop since interrogators, in the end, cannot determine which ones are lying and which ones are telling the truth. One debaters against tough interrogations talked about extreme measures and how it is not effective. He stated that we haven’t seen the worst yet—revenge. This could come back to haunt our country. We need to stop the torturing and find a more effective way for interrogators to decide between truth and fiction. Tough interrogations should not be allowed anymore. They are not necessary and do not accomplish anything except killing more innocent people.
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