Killing and the Wrongness of Torture

How can just warriors prohibit torture absolutely while still allowing that killing can be just? The best arguments for torture's wrongness and impermissibility seem to suggest that killing, too, is always wrong. If torture is wrong because it attacks 'imago Dei', why isn't killi...

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Main Author: Decosimo, Joseph David 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center [2016]
In: Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 181-198
IxTheo Classification:CA Christianity
NBE Anthropology
NCB Personal ethics
NCD Political ethics
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