1. A Justification for Torture
... ratio for intra-specific aggression" (Georgiev et al.). If cost-benefit analysis and utilitarian calculus is so pervasive that it is even drawn from our psychological biology, and can be found in the very confines of the wild, this of course then shirks the argument that aggression in the form of "torture" can be considered "inhumane." Apparently our ancestors ... individual scanning techniques has made the likelihood of catching the wrong individual extremely slim, and to what extent the "wrong" individual is actually completely without fault, is also under question. Some claim that it...
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