Argentines least likely to approve of torture, according to Pew survey of 38 nations. [View all]

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Argentines have the least tolerance for the use of torture in the world, with only 15% of those surveyed considering it justified whether carried out by national authorities or by those of the United States.

In most countries, public opinion is divided about whether government-sponsored torture can ever be justified, as part of efforts to prevent terrorist attacks, according to a Pew Research Center survey of 38 nations.

A median of 45% of respondents worldwide polled said they did not believe use of torture by their governments against suspected terrorists to try to gain information about possible attacks in their country could be justified. A median of 40% thought the use of torture could be justified in these types of cases.

A Pew Research Center survey on global attitudes toward torture placed the median acceptance at 40% on the global scale to the following question: “If the government used torture against people suspected of terrorism to try to gain information about possible attacks in the country, do you think this could be justified or could not be justified?”

Attitudes toward torture in Latin America were much less tolerant, however, with the median in the region being 25%. The outlier in the region is Peru, in which almost 40% of the those survey found torture "justified.” According to Pew, the “U.S. public is among the most likely to consider torture justifiable: 58% concur, while only 37% disagree. There are only five nations in the survey where larger shares of the public believe torture against suspected terrorists can be justified: Uganda (78%), Lebanon (72%), Israel (62%), Kenya (62%) and Nigeria (61%).”

At: http://buenosairesherald.com/article/208477/argentines-have-world%E2%80%99s-lowest-tolerance-for-torture