PHI 221 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Humanitarian Intervention, Principle Of Double Effect, The Slippery Slope
17 Nov 2017
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Terrorism violence against noncombatants for political, religious, or ideological ends. The first question that all terrorism provokes: Torture the intentional inflicting of severe pain or suffering on people to punish or intimidate them or to extract information from them. Three issues concerning the morality of torture: Consequentialist theories have been used to both support and to undermine pacifism. Some have argued that by utilitarian lights, antiwar pacifism must be true. Critics of anti war pacifism say there is no evidence that pacifism always results in less death and suffering than war. When justifying views on the resort to war, both pacifists and non pacifists may take a nonconsequentialist approach, appealing to fundamental moral principles. Pacifists typically rest their case on the right to life. Non pacifists rely on the right of self-defense or the defense of basic human rights generally. There are no good reasons to suppose that it is ever justified. Therefore, violence (including political violence) is always wrong.
