The Ticking Time Bomb: Pinellas Active Calls' Ticking Time Bomb

Verkkothis chapter analyses the ‘ticking bomb scenario’ (tbs), which is frequently used to justify torture.

Topics covered include myth and fact in the tbs;

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The tbs and the.

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Verkkothis paper seeks to understand the affective work that the ‘ticking time bomb scenario’ and its imagined dramatization does in shaping how torture is.

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In other words, torture aims to strip away from.

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Verkkothe question that this thought experiment addresses is whether we should use torture to obtain the information from the terrorist that can prevent the catastrophe.

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It prompts some to invoke the maxim that.

Therefore, we should torture in those cases.