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Is Torture Ever Justified? "[t]here is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed - one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history."1 Through the horrific acts of torture, one's body changes from the once sacred life-dwelling 'temple' into an instrument used merely to inflict severe physical pain in the hope of gaining much needed information or simply to mete out punishment or coercion.2 Torture results in varying responses and reactions both during and after these displays of physical and intangible emotional and mental violence. None of these responses has even a slightly positive effect on the tortured, instead often leaving the human soul mentally unstable and even suicidal. Every set of universal laws including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights rebukes all acts associated with torture. Thus, in rudimentary terms, the act of torture has no legal, let alone moral...

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