Inter American University of Puerto Rico CASE STUDY: TORTURE THE BOMBING SUSPECT? Source: Dr. Tom Kerns‚ Introduction to Bioethics‚ http://www.bioethicscourse.info/casesite/cs-torture.html GEPE 4040 Ethical Dimensions Contemporary Affairs Prof.: Miłosz Mariusz Jacko‚ Ph.D. At 9:30am a phone call was received at The Seattle Times from a person claiming to have placed a bomb at an undisclosed location in downtown Seattle. The caller indicated the device was set to detonate at 2pm the
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Therefore some treaties and domestic laws opposed it as torture and violation of human rights like Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 5 and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights article 7 is against any kind of torture as well as Islam also against any form of torture‚ so it must be reform and must be something alternative to such rigorous Punishment. NUMBER OF PAGES: 18 KEY WORDS: Confinement‚ segregation‚ torture‚ violation‚ supermax‚ physiological effects‚ extradition
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Iran A Threat to International Security? Human rights in Iran are not very respected. Women in Iran and their rights: Although women can vote and run for Parliament‚ if they do not follow the social norms‚ they are subject to beatings and torture for violating the norms. Although women do have certain rights‚ their rights are limited: A woman inherits half of the share of her brothers. A woman needs her husband’s permission to work outside the home or to leave the country. Norms:
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difficulties by appealing to experience; however‚ no method of reconciling an individual decision with the rules of experience is suggested‚ and no relative weights are assigned to the various considerations. In deciding whether or not to torture a terrorist who has planted a bomb in New York City‚ a utilitarian must evaluate both the overall welfare of the people involved or effected by the action taken‚ and the consequences of the action taken. To calculate the welfare of the people involved
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Philosophers When defending on behalf of Beccaria I would say witches will cease to exist when we stop torturing people and asking them if they are witches. If you torture people long enough asking them if they are Satan himself pretty soon you’ll be having to send a bunch of reincarnations of Satan to the stake instead of witches. Torture someone long enough and they’ll be whatever you want them to be‚ witches included. As for Voltaire‚ I would point out that practices like the witch trials are exactly
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post war life couldn’t be so powerful and redeeming. There are so many great plot lines in this book: the rise of Zamperini as an Olympic athlete‚ his heroism towards his colleagues while on a raft for 27 days‚ his courage in the camps despite the torture‚ but his greatness really showed when he was able to transcend his pain and its incumbent bitterness to turn his own life around. This was the most gripping part of the book for me because most people would have acted very differently than Louie if
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“enhanced” interrogation policies in Guantanamo Bay. Despite having signed and ratified the UN Torture Convention‚ which clearly underlines that torture is never justified regardless of emergency situations‚ the US Department of Justice argued that self-defense and national security justified the President’s powers (without checks and balances) to give permission to the officials at Guantanamo to torture enemy detainees for
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the violent nature of these conflicts‚ a large portion of refugees have experienced torture‚ and have had to cope with intense trauma. The convicts and officers in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good have very similar circumstances with modern day refugees‚ enduring constant persecution and violence. Consequently‚ both the play and “The Psychological Impact of Torture‚” a review on the effects of torture on refugees‚ can provide a glimpse into how people react and cope under dehumanizing
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Evaluating Violence When deciding whether violence is ethical or justified‚ there are several factors that must be considered. There is not a simple answer to any scenario and each scenario must be evaluated carefully and thoroughly. Torture has proven to be an extremely effective tool so putting an all out ban on it would have quite a few repercussions‚ especially in the war on terror. Could the United States really justify losing access to terrorist information in order to be more humane?
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conducted through rights such as the presence of counsel and right against self-incrimination. Despite the measures put to guide interrogation procedures‚ interrogation techniques have evolved from establishing a rapport with the suspect to outright torture. However‚ effective interrogation techniques should obtain the required information while preserving the rights of the suspect. Most of the 19th century was marred by use of interrogation techniques that exerted brutal force on their subjects while
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