Anyone up for Torture?

Torture is a means to exercise the control of power over anyone who
needs to be silenced, anyone who is a terrorist or threat to that power
source, and anyone who has vital information or needs to confess
something.
Most of the countries that torture openly are in Asia, Africa, and the Middle
East. Although, there are many other countries that abuse this power that
violates human rights (and animal rights too).
It is a mistake to think that torture only is prevalent in authoritarian or
quasi-authoritarian states. Many democratic governments have used
torture.
Where torture is very atrocious:
Egypt: type of torture includes electric shock, suspension by the wrists or ankles and threats of violence or rape.
North Korea: Type of torture include severe beatings, electric shock, prolonged periods of exposure???, public nakedness, and confinement to ‘punishment cells’ too small for prisoners to stand upright or lie down.
China: Physical and psychological torture.
Colombia: All of Colombia’s three sides torture (don't know what that is???look it up).
Congo: Again torture is practiced by all its combatants in the countries chaotic civil war.
Uzbekistan: Type of torture used includes suffocation, electric shock, rape and other sexual abuses.
Turkey: Military and law enforcement officials use torture. Women detainees are routinely raped.
India: Torture is used in criminal investigations in areas where political and sectarian violence is common.
Israel and Palestinian Authority: Both sides use torture against each other.
Torturers often end up physically beating their prey. They often employ mind games with their prisoners, threatening their families and their pets.

The propose of torture is to reduce your detainee to an inferior level
wherein you have absolute power and control over them.
Post 9-11 shifted the topic of torture to something that needs to be looked

Aristotle's Rhetoric

I hope this clears some of this weeks logos up:

We persuade by the argument itself (logos) when we demostrate or seem to demonstrate that something is the case. For Aristotle, there are two species of arguments: inductions and deductions. Induction is defined as the proceeding from particulars up to a universal. A deduction is an argument in which, certain things having been supposed, something different from the suppositions results of necessity through them or because of thier being ture. The inductive argument in rhetoric is the example; it does not proceed from many particular cases to one universal case, but from one particular to a similar particular if both particulars fall under the same class. The deductive argument in rhetoric is the enthymeme.

The Enthymeme:

The Concept of Enthymeme

For Aristotle, an enthymeme is what has the function of a proof or demostration in the domain of public speech. Since a demonstration is a kind of 'sullogismos.' The concepts 'proof' and 'sullogismos' play a crucial role in Aristotle's logical-dialectical theory. Properly understood, what people call 'enthymeme' should have the form of a sullogismos, i.e. a deductive argument.

Rapp, Christof, "Aristotle's Rhetoric", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(Summer 2002 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL=