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Debate: Torture
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View (previous 50) (next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).- Position:Rudy Giuliani supports a form of torture in certain circumstances
- Position:Mitt Romney supports a form of torture in certain circumstances
- Argument: The West's use of torture is trivial compared to many countries
- Argument: Terrorists have no Geneva rights
- Argument: American law allows for some forms of torture
- Argument: Torture risks a country's troops being tortured in return
- Argument: Torture erodes character of a nation and its success in war of ideas
- Argument: Torture is banned under the UN Convention Against Torture
- Argument: Torture has saved lives
- Argument: Information acquired by torture cannot be relied upon
- Position:Senator John McCain opposes torture
- Argument: Criteria for "acceptable" forms of torture would be susceptible to abuse
- Position: John Yoo advocates a role for torture
- Argument: Torture is justified in the "ticking time-bomb" scenario
- Argument: The "ticking time-bomb" imagines an impossible scenario of perfect information
- Argument: The ticking time-bomb scenario leads to a slippery slope of intrusion on rights
- Argument: The infliction of mere pain on an evil-minded terrorist to save millions of innocent lives is an ethical trade-off
- Argument: Torture is always wrong
- Argument: Why Christians should not support torture
- Argument: Torture dehumanizes the torturer
- Argument: Torture violates the dignity of the human being
- Argument: Torture violates protections of the vulnerable
- Argument: Terrorists relinquish most of their right to protection under the law
- Argument: Torture can protect the life and dignity of the innocent
- Argument: The United States has always opposed torture historically
- Argument: Torture is banned under the Geneva Conventions
- Argument: Even if torture is illegal, it is still justified in "ticking time bomb"
- Argument: Leaders must be afforded the flexbility to judge that torture is the most probable way to save hundreds of thousands of lives
- Argument: One-in-a-million probability of "ticking time bomb" can justify allowing torture
- Argument: Nations commiting torture rally an even greater hatred from their enemies
- Argument: If torture were legal in any circumstances, it would be institutionalized in destructive ways
- Argument: The "ticking time-bomb" scenario is too unlikely to be legally significant
- Argument: Torture warrant in "ticking time-bomb" would avoid slippery slope
- Argument: Humane methods of interrogation are better at obtaining information than torture
- John Yoo
- Argument: Torture is not punishment, but a measure to protect innocent civilians from the assailant
- Debate: Waterboarding
- Debate: Should Bush administration officials be prosecuted for "torture"?
- Debate: Enhanced interrogation techniques
