The Absolute Violation

Why Torture Must Be Prohibited

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Richard S. Matthews ISBN: 9780773578289
Publisher: MQUP Publication: July 24, 2008
Imprint: MQUP Language: English
Author: Richard S. Matthews
ISBN: 9780773578289
Publisher: MQUP
Publication: July 24, 2008
Imprint: MQUP
Language: English

Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported.

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Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported.

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