Assertion: torture | /r/HasProperty | wrong
Facets:
value: morally
type: DEGREE
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: through exposing the moral problems
type: MANNER
value: through a critique of this scenario
type: MANNER
value: under the second
type: OTHER
value: from a moral standpoint
type: OTHER
value: at under
type: LOCATION
value: about 24
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: For instance, it is generally held that torture is defined in part as the deliberate infliction of extreme suffering and that – by virtue of this defining feature – torture is morally wrong.
text: Whether torture “works” is the WRONG question.
text: Torture is wrong
text: Others argue that it is a 'moral absolute' that torture is always wrong, and so can never be justified by any form of ethical 'cost-benefit analysis'.
text: However, if the outcome of policies allowing torture are uncertain (or if the outcome can not be definitely traced back to the use of torture) then there can be a utilitarian view that torture is wrong (see issues related to the ends justifying the means in analysis of the ticking time bomb scenario).
text: i feel that us americans have been indoctrinated to hating the whole world, torture by any country is wrong but it happens, feel free to go ahead and use waterboarding to get information and the iraqi's can continue beheading soldiers that they catch.
text: torture is wrong.
text: And of course: torture and indefinite detention without charge are wrong, but shouldn’t they be available tools, in limited circumstances, in case they’re needed?
text: The kids see it, and say, 'If torture is wrong, what about "24"?'
text: Whatever might happen behind closed doors (or in training sessions provided by the School of the Americas, for example), in public, everyone—government officials, the press and the public—agreed that torture was wrong.
text: Is torture morally wrong at all times and under all circumstances?
text: From a moral standpoint, torture is wrong and unacceptable.
text: Why is torture wrong?
text: Jeff McMahan: I think that torture is almost always morally wrong and that, for moral reasons, it ought to be prohibited absolutely in law.
text: How do we know that torture is wrong?
text: In this essay I will argue that torture is always morally wrong.
text: I will conclude that torture is morally wrong and that the arguments overwhelmingly support the need for a complete prohibition.
text: Under the second, torture is wrong because torturing a person for information is to use them as a means only.
text: In this essay, I have sought to argue that torture is always morally wrong through a critique of this scenario and through exposing the moral problems that it serves to obscure.
text: Having shown the weaknesses of the case for torture, I then went on to make the case that torture is always morally wrong.
text: Torture is always wrong;