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Perspective

Nov. 6, 2010

Torture Has No Place In a Civilized Society

Torture has too often been viewed as an acceptable means of protecting national security. By Jeremy Waldron of New York University Law School

By Jeremy Waldron

In "Torture Terror and Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House," Jeremy Waldron discusses all that has changed, and all that has remained the same since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In this excerpt, Waldron laments on the changing view of torture as a way to deal with terrorists.

Torture, like terrorism, instrumentalizes the pain and terror of human beings; it involves the deliberate, studied, and sustained imposition of pain...

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