Assertion: torture | /r/HasProperty | immoral
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: in clear cases
type: TEMPORAL
value: under all circumstances
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Why Torture Is Always Immoral
text: National and international legal prohibitions on torture derive from a consensus that torture and similar ill-treatment are immoral, as well as impractical, and information obtained by torture is far less reliable than that obtained by other techniques.
text: Organizations like Amnesty International argue that the universal legal prohibition is based on a universal philosophical consensus that torture and ill-treatment are repugnant, abhorrent, and immoral.
text: Torture is immoral.
text: Torture is immoral.
text: The problem with it is that it throws us back to the ticking-bomb scenario and the question of whether torture (however defined) is immoral under all circumstances.
text: Indeed, most seasoned interrogators recognize that torture is not only immoral and illegal, but ineffective and unnecessary as well.
text: Why can’t they admit that there are gray areas but still maintain that, in clear cases, torture is always immoral?
text: Finally, torture is immoral and undermines values that define our national identity..
text: Torture - including waterboarding - is immoral and illegal.