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Torture: when the unthinkable is morally permissible

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Content: Overview of the torture debate -- Torture : reality and legal position -- The moral status of torture -- The slippery slope illusion -- Live saving torture is a humane practice -- Torture is effective -- Torture is not anti-democratic -- The real divide : where responsibility starts and ends -- Why the torture debate really matters (and why a meta analysis of the torture debate supports our argument) -- The ends justifies the means

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Content: Overview of the torture debate -- Torture : reality and legal position -- The moral status of torture -- The slippery slope illusion -- Live saving torture is a humane practice -- Torture is effective -- Torture is not anti-democratic -- The real divide : where responsibility starts and ends -- Why the torture debate really matters (and why a meta analysis of the torture debate supports our argument) -- The ends justifies the means

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Content: Overview of the torture debate -- Torture : reality and legal position -- The moral status of torture -- The slippery slope illusion -- Live saving torture is a humane practice -- Torture is effective -- Torture is not anti-democratic -- The real divide : where responsibility starts and ends -- Why the torture debate really matters (and why a meta analysis of the torture debate supports our argument) -- The ends justifies the means

Key concepts: Torture, Argument (complex analysis), Law, Illusion, Democracy, Political science, Criminology, Sociology

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