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Debate: A right to torture?

Comment posted by Xie_Ming

24 Feb 2009

The BBC currently has a program wherein the reporter talks to Americans who have actually performed torture. One said that the purpose was always to instill fear that worse was to come. On the... Read more : Debate: A right to torture?

Debate: A right to torture?

Comment posted by Unknown

21 Feb 2009

Related to this is the teleological (the doctrine that the existence of phenomena may be explained with reference to the purpose they serve)
assumption:... Read more : Debate: A right to torture?
               

Debate: A right to torture?

Comment posted by Xie_Ming

20 Feb 2009

The reason for saying a "Right" to torture relates to the various efforts to legislate on this matter.
If we can discuss the legislative aspect, both national and international... Read more : Debate: A right to torture?
               

Debate: A right to torture?

Comment posted by Unknown

19 Feb 2009

The reason for saying a "Right" to torture relates to the various efforts to legislate on this matter.
If we can discuss the legislative aspect, both national and international... Read more : Debate: A right to torture?
               

Debate: A right to torture?

Comment posted by Xie_Ming

18 Feb 2009

The reason for saying a "Right" to torture relates to the various efforts to legislate on this matter. If we can discuss the legislative aspect, both national and international, it may set a basis... Read more : Debate: A right to torture?

Debate: A right to torture?

Comment posted by Unknown

17 Feb 2009

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The reductio ad absurdum can be carried further:
Food, Fear and Sex are basic human drives.
Fear can inhibit access to food or sex.... Read more : Debate: A right to torture?
               

Debate: A right to torture?

Comment posted by Unknown

17 Feb 2009

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OK. These are two different uses of torture:
a) The fear of further pain in an interrogation.
b) To instill fear and produce conformity in a... Read more : Debate: A right to torture?
               

Debate: A right to torture?

Comment posted by Unknown

17 Feb 2009

"Give me information or I will continue to hurt you", is the use of fear, of pain, by means of torture.
Unless sufficiant fear is instilled then the trade is going to fail... Read more : Debate: A right to torture?
               

Debate: A right to torture?

Comment posted by Unknown

16 Feb 2009

 Torture is used to instil fear. This might be to extract information or to intimidate and persuade a population into compliance.
... Read more : Debate: A right to torture?
               

Debate: A right to torture?

Comment posted by Unknown

16 Feb 2009

Torture is used to instil fear. This might be to extract information or to intimidate and persuade a population into compliance.
__________________________________... Read more : Debate: A right to torture?

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