Assertion: torture | /r/HasProperty | acceptable
Facets:
value: in some cases
type: TEMPORAL
value: morally
type: DEGREE
value: for the ancient greeks
type: OTHER
value: for the romans
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: sometimes
type: DEGREE
value: based on his theory on consequentialism
type: OTHER
value: given its harmfulness
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Professor Levinson sought both to define what in particular is bad about torture, and to determine whether, given its harmfulness, torture can ever be morally acceptable.
text: Throughout the book it becomes clearer that the reason it can be so easy to think that torture can be morally acceptable is not just that people may have naïve beliefs about its efficacy, but also a weak grasp of a) what it is to be tortured and to live with having been tortured; b) what socially must be in place in order to practice torture; and c) what it is to live together as potential torturers and victims of torture.
text: Torture is acceptable if it can save the lives of fellow citizens in “ticking-bomb” scenarios.
text: The reason that this scenario doesn’t back up the statement that torture is acceptable sometimes is that it seems to “perfect.
text: Mill's belief in Utilitarianism would most likely say that torture would be acceptable based on his theory on consequentialism, where its not the initial reason for the action but the ends.
text: For the ancient Greeks, and for the Romans who came after them, torture was not only acceptable, it was standard practice.
text: Sixty-three percent of Americans say that torture is acceptable in some cases—for example, when information about the location of a ticking bomb in a high-density neighborhood must be procured quickly—according to a 2005 survey by the Pew Research Center of People and the Press.
text: Though there are many proponents, claiming that torture is acceptable in a number of certain cases—such as against terrorists or maniacs