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Justifying Torture: Ethical Perspectives by Andreea Lita is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses whether torture can ever be justified from an ethical perspective. It defines torture and provides a brief history of its use. It examines international laws that prohibit torture and analyzes several ethical theories that both condemn torture as never acceptable and allow for potential justification in some cases, such as utilitarianism. As a case study, it discusses torture during the Iraq War and argues that based on just war theory, the war and associated torture were unjust. Ove

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Andreea Lita

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