RT Article
T1 When Is Torture Right?
JF Studies in Christian ethics
VO 20
IS 3
SP 383
OP 398
A1 McCready, Douglas 1947-
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1776582233
AB Despite nearly universal condemnation, torture remains a tool for interrogation, intimidation, and punishing. Even many who abhor torture are willing to consider its use in extraordinary situations. Both the deontological absolute prohibition of torture and the consequentialist justification of torture are inadequate ethics to address the issue. Dershowitz, Walzer, and Elshtain, among others, have attempted to redress the problem with more finely-tuned approaches, of which Elshtain's rejection of justification in favor of grace and forgiveness appears the most promising. Confronting the practice of torture is also difficult because there is no generally accepted definition of what constitutes torture. Not all coercion is torture, and some coercion is both legal and moral. Torture, in any case, remains a wrongful act.
K1 Walzer
K1 Torture
K1 ticking bomb scenario
K1 supreme emergency
K1 Interrogation
K1 detainee
K1 Dershowitz
K1 Coercion
DO 10.1177/0953946807082934