Does The Ends Justify the Means: Justifying the use of torture in the name of Public Interest Kenneth Rudominer Florida Gulf Coast University Introduction to Public Administration PAD 6060 Margaret E. Banyan‚ PhD January 20‚ 2013 Does The Ends Justify the Means: Justifying the use of torture in the name of Public Interest Public Administration can be thought of as where the rubber meets the road in the act of governing via the Constitution. Under normal conditions the framework of the
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Why Not Everyone Is A Torturer - Oliver Behrensdorff What are the causes of atrocity events such as the massacre at My Lai‚ the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib or the extermination of Jews during World War II? Whether groups of people bestowed with unaccountable power naturally resort to violence or not‚ the subject is indeed controversial. Arguably‚ the less restrictions that one must follow‚ the higher the risk becomes of one to condone violence. However‚ how can we explain
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Saddam Hussein‚ Abu Ghraib was one of the worlds worst and most notorious prisons. From torture‚ to executions‚ to terrible living conditions. This was the honest view of the horrors of war. The mistreatment at Abu Ghraib took a toll on not only the prisoners‚ but also on how we view these war crimes today. Between Abu Ghraib and The Stanford Prison Experiment‚ one can draw several lines of similarity‚ as well as several contrasting elements. Something can be learned from witnessing such acts of disgust
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Creative and Critical Thinking II 1. Have you ever changed a strongly held attitude? What caused the change for you? I have only experienced a shift in my personal beliefs once: at one point in time I believed I was relegated to working in a factory‚ now I do not have the same belief. I believe that the shift in my attitude was due to an internal growth; I became more self-aware after my father passed away. I looked at my father‚ and all he had done‚ and began to believe that I was capable of
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WHY DOES PLATO COMPARE ORDINARY HUMAN EXISTENCE TO THAT OF CHAINED PRISONERS IN A CAVE? Plato in his famous Allegory of Cave compared the ordinary human existence to that of chained prisoners in a cave. According to Plato‚ we are all stuck in a false reality in this world like prisoners in a cave. His cave theory still applies today in the sense that the people are influenced and controlled by the world around them. They do not want to realize or seek the truth; instead they wish to live
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he Lucifer Effect raises a fundamental question about the nature of human nature: How is it possible for ordinary‚ average‚ even good people to become perpetrators of evil? In trying to understand unusual‚ or aberrant behavior‚ we often err in focusing exclusively on the inner determinants of genes‚ personality‚ and character‚ as we also tend to ignore what may be the critical catalyst for behavior change in the external Situation or in the System that creates and maintains such situations. I challenge
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Conner Wilson 10-23-2012 Composition I The Deindividuation of Society Since the beginning of time‚ mankind has advanced as a society of many; each person and individual a piece in the great machine that is time. This unity‚ this joining of forces‚ has driven mankind forward throughout the dark ages of humanity’s past and into the modern world people live in today. Much has changed with the passing of time‚ but what has not changed is humanity’s primal instinct to create allies and forge relationships
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Mississippi Department of corrections Fails to provide proper care and fulfill their constitutional obligations to prisoners in privately owned prison. MDOC considers themselves above the law‚ and fails to hold up their responsibilities under constitutional laws. They do what they want when they want without concern to anyone. They do not provide adequate and safe meals‚ nor do they provide proper health care‚ and in general do not abide by the Mississippi state laws they have committed to
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Lyman‚ and how the war had ruined their tight bond. In this story‚ the older brother‚ Henry‚ had signed up for the war and was taken away after an enjoyable and memorable road trip with his brother. It was during the war where Henry was taken as prisoner of the Vietnamese and what had occurred during that time was left to reader’s imagination. When he returns‚ he is a whole new person; he is emotionless and stoic. In fact‚ while watching the television with his family‚ Henry unconsciously bites through
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Introduction: The plasticity of human is endlessly tremendous as a mystery. General speaking that human beings are filled with compassion but sometimes regard things with hatred; some people fire to each other whereas they declare that they are loyal believers for peace; and possibly humans are more capable for conflict than harmony. This essay is going to interpret that the human conflict‚ intervention and the issue about identifying good and evil‚ in order to unfold the statement that humans
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