Cruz, Pauline Anne L.

1ST Year, PCEIT-33-101A

2) In 2006, President George W. Bush proposed legislation that would “decriminalize

the use of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by civilian interrogators.” The
legislation would allow the use of torture on suspected terrorists, such as the detainees
being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Discuss whether the use of torture in the
American public, violates one of the Philosophers, Kant, in his categorical imperative,
“which prohibits using a person as a means only”

On the 11th day of September 2001 during the administration of George Bush,
the US receive several attacks from al-Quida, a broad-based militanat islamist
organization and on the 17th of September on the same year, Bush signed a memo to
authorize CIA to detain the terrorists and decided them to keep in secret prisons. Spring
of 2002, the US received an important detainee named Abu Zabaydah, described as al-
Qaida’s travel agent for helping coordinate attacks. In June and July, the CIA had begun
developing a dozen interrogation techniques that went beyond those allowed in the
Army Field Manual. The CIA let the White House know that it required these new
procedures in light of the fact that "endless more Americans might kick the bucket
except if we can convince [Abu Zubaydah] to lets us know what he knows."

Since then, something that will cause harm to other people has never been a
moral thing to do, but with the intensification of anger between the American nation and
Al-Qaeda, which has sown chaos in their country, the people have not been restrained
from thinking twice, doing something immoral such as cruelty and torture in
interrogations that will save many lives. One of the main problems in this issue is the
dispute between the two sides which argues that torture or assault when it comes to
interrogation is an immoral act but it is not possible to put the lives of the people in
danger on the grounds that it is not right to do interrogations by violence.

Before explaining my side in this argument, I just want to say that we must really
know what we are standing for. Guantanamo bay, has been as much as what we think it
could be. And violence will never be my choice. It’s been a hard question for me to
answer. It makes curious. If they don’t want to experience that hell, then why do they
terrorize in the first place?

Reading such articles explaining how people suffer in that place, feeding them
through a tube that was inserted from his nostrils to his stomach, water boarding, sleep
deprivation, hanging both of people’s hands for months and so much things that we can
really say that it was indeed inhuman. It was already an abuse to human rights and
making it not legal under US and other countries was just the right thing to do.
Cruz, Pauline Anne L. 1ST Year, PCEIT-33-101A

4. The United Nation Population Fund advocates abortion as a means of population

Control such as China and India. What is your position? Support your answer.

First trimester, the vacuum aspiration; where a 13 to 16 weeks old fetus was
sucked up by a tube. It’ll go and sucked piece by piece, every inch and every part.
Where the heart lose its beat in a matter of moments, you’ll be able to see even the tiny
little hands not to be touched with full of hope and love but was scrapped from the
mothers cervix. The United Nations Population fund advocates abortion as a means of
population control such as China and India. Population control is important in a country,
our population should be balanced and having too populated country results to give rise
to unemployment, ecological degradation which affects our biodiversity, increasing in
conflicts shows that it makes them think that life of a people was small and having some
sort of confusion in determining life’s importance tend to increase violence rate and
causes disasters and pandemics.

Considering abortion as a means of population control and as a solution to wide

range population problems in the society is definitely an immoral thing to do. The
moment it was combined, blood flows and heart pumps it is already considered as life
and it already has the right to live. Another thing is that, there is always an alternative. I
know that abortion alone will never become a solution to this issue, and WHO knows
how they can solved these kind of issue in a way that world can be affected.

My side in all of these issues will never harm anyone, no life must be affected. I
support the use of contraceptives as one of the alternatives. When we are talking about
the raped victims, there must have both social, psychological and health support from
the government, to realized that abortion is not a solution, abortion can’t unrape these
women and the child must not suffer from him/her parent’s fault.