Why torture is evil
AntiWar.Com
by Will Van Wagenen
07/09/09
Most defenders of torture rely on the argument that torture saves (American) lives, and that torture is therefore justified and moral. Such defenders often cite fantastic scenarios similar to the following: Imagine a terrorist group is planning to detonate a nuclear bomb in the middle of a major US city. Now imagine that one of the terrorists is captured by the CIA. The terrorist won’t reveal the information needed to stop the attack so he must be tortured until he gives up the information, allowing the CIA to stop the attack and save hundreds of thousands of lives. Such defenders then pose the question, ‘How could it be wrong to torture one evil person in order to save hundreds of thousands of lives?’ In other words such defenders cite as their ‘proof’ that torture is moral an imaginary scenario which has never occurred and which has no basis in reality...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Will+Van+Wagenen
by Will Van Wagenen
07/09/09
Most defenders of torture rely on the argument that torture saves (American) lives, and that torture is therefore justified and moral. Such defenders often cite fantastic scenarios similar to the following: Imagine a terrorist group is planning to detonate a nuclear bomb in the middle of a major US city. Now imagine that one of the terrorists is captured by the CIA. The terrorist won’t reveal the information needed to stop the attack so he must be tortured until he gives up the information, allowing the CIA to stop the attack and save hundreds of thousands of lives. Such defenders then pose the question, ‘How could it be wrong to torture one evil person in order to save hundreds of thousands of lives?’ In other words such defenders cite as their ‘proof’ that torture is moral an imaginary scenario which has never occurred and which has no basis in reality...
http://tinyurl.com/l9bzy5
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Will+Van+Wagenen
rudkla - 9. Jul, 10:54
