PHI-2630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Retributive Justice, Uniform Crime Reports, Alan Dershowitz
Document Summary
Torture: some concerns: rights-based: human rights violation. Certain rights are inalienable (no matter what you do) Torture causes both physical and mental harm: pragmatic concerns: plenty of evidence that torture is ineffective or outright counter-effective. A surprising number of people believe that torture works on the basis of the fact that it works on television. Non-coercive, traditional, rapport-based interviewing approaches provide the best possibility for obtaining accurate and complete intelligence (interrogators of fbi, cia & the us military) Generally, torture and other inhumane and abusive treatment results in false and misleading information, loss of critical intelligence and has caused serious damage to the reputation of the. United states (interrogators of fbi, cia & the us military) The relevant scenarios are cases in which torturing the terrorist will save many innocent lives at the cost of non-lethal suffering to one individual. Torturing the terrorist would thus produce the most happiness/well-being. One ought to do what produces the most happiness/well-being.
