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Mainstreaming Torture
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Authors: Rebecca Gordon
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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many Americans had assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Rebecc
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Argues that there are moral grounds to use torture where the lives of the innocent are at stake.
The Ethics of Torture
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Authors: J. Jeremy Wisnewski
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Torture has recently been the subject of some sensational headlines. As a result, there has been a huge surge in interest in the ethical implications of this co