Assertion: torture | /r/HasProperty | justified
Facets:
value: morally
type: MANNER
value: in some extreme emergencies
type: TEMPORAL
value: often
type: DEGREE
value: if ever
type: TEMPORAL
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
value: in some circumstances
type: OTHER
value: in a post-9/11 world
type: LOCATION
value: in women
type: OTHER
value: in extreme circumstances
type: TEMPORAL
value: in those men
type: OTHER
value: in such a case
type: OTHER
value: dershowitz:
type: OTHER
value: as a general matter
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Moreover, in this contemporary debate, the protagonists have tended to assume that if torture is morally justified in some extreme emergencies then it ought to be legalised.
text: is torture ever morally justifiable?
text: Torture is a justifiable last resort
text: Thus Alan Dershowitz claims that torture is morally justified in some extreme emergencies and, in the light of this claim, argues for torture warrants in these cases (2003, Chapter 4).
text: The central claim of the proponents of “practical moral absolutes” seems to be an empirical one; ticking bomb scenarios, such as our above-described terrorist case – and other relevant one-off emergencies such as our above-described police beating case in which torture seems to be justified – have not, and will not, happen.
text: A utilitarian thinker may believe, when the overall outcome of lives saved due to torture are positive, torture can be justified; the intended outcome of an action is held as the primary factor in determining its merit or morality.
text: Not only do 59 percent of Americans say the torture of suspected terrorists was justified, but 58 percent say torture is often or sometimes justified, as a general matter.
text: Dershowitz: Torture could be justified
text: Is torture justified in such a case to force the detainee to talk?
text: I do not think that torture is ever justified it is cruel and inhuman, it shows no humanity.
text: In every instance in which a warrant is requested, a field officer has already decided that torture is justified; in the absence of a warrant requirement, the officer would simply have proceeded to implement torture.
text: Is torture ever justified in a post-9/11 world?
text: But even with the qualifier, he is judging 79 percent of evangelicals in America and 78 percent of Catholics (along with 68 percent of all Americans, according to a recent poll)—who say torture can be justified.
text: Yes, not only white evangelicals say torture is justified.
text: John Yoo, who was instrumental in setting up the Guantanamo Bay detention center, said in an interview in 2007 that there are situations when torture is justified:
text: Reasonable people will disagree about when torture is justified.
text: If this is, indeed, the only solution, I hope the courts and the public will show leniency, since torture is morally justified in extreme circumstances and those men and women who are caught between two evils but who humbly act according to conscience
text: Is torture ever justified?
text: But can torture sometimes be justified?
text: There is a recent poll by the Pew Research Center that found that 71 percent of Americans — American adults — said torture can be justified often or sometimes or rarely.
text: These five assumptions are the basis on which the ‘ticking bomb’ dilemma rests; torture may be justified if all are present
text: However, in reality there is little certain intelligence; would torture still be justified if there was only some, weak evidence?
text: To make prior judgement that torture is justified in some circumstances is dangerous and wrong – torture must be prosecuted as a crime wherever it occurs.
text: When, if ever, is torture justified?
text: Looking at public opinion across major regions, the view that torture may be justified is most common in sub-Saharan Africa, where a median of 55% hold this view; it is least common in Latin America
text: There are only five nations in the survey where larger shares of the public believe torture against suspected terrorists can be justified: Uganda (78%), Lebanon (72%), Israel (62%), Kenya (62%) and Nigeria (61%).
text: However, it is perfectly consistent to concede that torture might be morally justifiable in certain one-off emergency situations and yet oppose any legalization or institutionalization of torture.
text: It is consistent with the rejection of explicit legalisation of the torturing of the guilty that, as noted above, there be some form of legal redress in the very small number of exceptional cases of torturing the guilty in which the threat to the innocent is imminent (and torture is morally justifiable all things considered).
text: Torture is justifiable when the action leads to the saving of countless lives and therefore their happiness.
text: Torture can be morally justifiable, and even obligatory, when it is wholly defensive – for example, when torturing a wrongdoer would prevent him from seriously harming innocent people.
text: Torture can be morally justifiable, and even obligatory, when it is wholly defensive – for example, when torturing a wrongdoer would prevent him from seriously harming innocent people.