PHIL 2429 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Severe Torture, False Dilemma, Potassium Sulfate
26 Dec 2016
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Torture: suffering: physical/mental/long term, defenseless, particular aims: interrogation, confession. 1) torture can be morally justified according to steinhoff. Permitted - means it"s allowable - there"s no reason not to do it. Excusing - it"s not permitted to do it. Steinhoff says they"re no difference between defensive killing and torture. A) henry shues argument - if you can justify killing them surely you can justify torture. Says that torture is actually worse than killing. Shue says that in defensive killing you"re protecting against attack. But in torture i en duo torturing someone who"s defensiveness. Steinhoff says gun and torture are the same in extent. Sussman says that they"re not because the way it undermines agency and autonomy is worse in torture than robbery. Rape @ + @; robbery @ + . Even if it doesn"t work it"s still justified in trying. But there are exceptions of self defense. Against legalizing torture but that"s not an absolute claim for him unlike others.
