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Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist be Tortured?
Author(s)Dershowitz, Alan
AbstractMr. Dershowitz addresses the torture debate as a moral dilemma of choosing between two evils, by first discussing how societies have handled the torture question in the past and why torture has reemerged on the agenda of discussion since September 2001. This chapter considers torture as an example of how to think about the kinds of tragic choices we are likely to confront in the age of biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism.
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Pages131-163
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SourceWhy Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge
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PubDate2002
ISBN_ISSN300097662


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