The Absolute Violation

The Absolute Violation
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780773578289
ISBN-13 : 0773578285
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Book Synopsis The Absolute Violation by : Richard S. Matthews

Download or read book The Absolute Violation written by Richard S. Matthews and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported.


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