The utilitarian justification of torture  

Oleh:

Morgan, Rod

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Punishment and Society vol. 2 no. 2 (Apr. 2000), page 181-196.
Topik: Bentham . human rights . terrorism . torture . utilitarianism
Fulltext: 181PS22.pdf (171.31KB)

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Torture is prohibited by customary international law. Yet the practice widely persists. Beneath the rhetoric of human rights talk the utilitarian justification of torture commands a good deal of support among police and security agencies and is detectable between the lines of the discourse of denial. Can torture be justified on utilitarian grounds? Close examination of Bentham's defence of torture, and the reasoning of the Landau Report in support of `moderate physical pressure' in Israel, suggests that it cannot. The practice of torture will arguably best be countered by confronting the subterranean utilitarian justications of torture on their own terms: in the long term it does not work but, rather, undermines the legitimacy of the state itself.

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