SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United Nations Convention Against Torture, Lingchi
1 Dec 2018
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Historical ambiguity: home/abroad: citizen pact > keep it a secret state practice. Became: the worst thing we can do" [abject boundary] Practice declining, alarm growing: sign of our fear of not being able to keep evil at bay. The bad news of torture is very bad in a world where there is worse news: political hopelessness" (moyn 2013) We can mobilise against leaders and regimes that take the low road, even as we"ve lost our collective ability to imagine any higher road for ourselves, whether in our own states or as a global community. Justifying torture? torture needed to produce vital facts instrumental essential to get information ticking bomb scenario confession declare responsibility. Unequal relationship it is the authority who determines truth value. A successful public execution justified justice, in that it published the truth of the crime in the very body of the man to be executed . Supplice - corporal punishment, to an excessive horrible degree.
