Torture : when the unthinkable is morally permissible / Mirko Bagaric, Julie Clarke.
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TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 114 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781429498319
- 1429498315
- Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Torture -- United States
- Political prisoners -- Abuse of -- United States
- Human rights
- Human Rights
- Prisonniers politiques -- Violence envers -- États-Unis
- Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology
- Human rights
- Political prisoners -- Abuse of
- Torture
- Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects
- United States
- 364.6/7 22
- HV8593 .B35 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-111) and index.
Introduction : Overview of the torture debate -- Torture : reality and legal position -- The moral status of torture -- The slippery slope illusion -- Live-saving torture is a humane practice -- Torture is effective -- Torture is not antidemocratic -- The real divide : where responsibility starts and ends -- Why the torture debate really matters (and why a "meta analysis" of the torture debate supports our argument) -- Conclusion : The ends justifies the means.
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