PHIL 237 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Zacarias Moussaoui

• School: McGill University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 237
• Professor: Dominic Martin

Document Summary

Walzer 1998 terrorism, a critique of excuses: an analogy of rape and murder: killing of innocent people, intrusion of fear into everyday life. A. terrorism is the last resort: everything else is tried, so there is no alternative : we have tried everything, this is the only option. All democratic countries would be outraged to know that the attack of the world trade centre could have been avoided with a bit of torture: act utilitarian argument: 1. torture can save many lives, the answer to this argument is, there is already a just as painful death penalty as well as prison in general: the 3 or 4 ways to deal with torture. Absence of torture off-the-book prohibition legalization value compromised: security and safety civil liberties and human rights. Henry shue - forces us to accept something that it simply wrong.