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* Read ^ Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and War by Henry Shue ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and War The other sixteen chapters maintain that for as long as wars are in fact fought, it is morally urgent to limit specific destructive practices that cannot be prohibited. Some of our most fundamental moral rules are violated by the practices of torture and war. statutes have loop-holes for psychological torture of the kind now favoured by CIA in the 'war against terrorism'. The practice of torture has nothing significant in common with the ticking bomb scenario often used in its defence, and weak
| Title | : | Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and War |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.11 (883 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198767625 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
Henry Shue is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Internation Studies, University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Merton College, Oxford. He was a founding member of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland in 1976 and later a formative teache
The other sixteen chapters maintain that for as long as wars are in fact fought, it is morally urgent to limit specific destructive practices that cannot be prohibited. Some of our most fundamental moral rules are violated by the practices of torture and war. statutes have loop-holes for psychological torture of the kind now favoured by CIA in the 'war against terrorism'. The practice of torture has nothing significant in common with the ticking bomb scenario often used in its defence, and weak U.S. The first is the rules to limit the bombing of dual-use infrastructure, with a focus on alternative interpretations of the principle of proportionality that limits 'collateral damage'. It is argued that the current philosophical critique of IHL by Jeff McMahan focused on individual moral liability to attack is an intellectual dead-end and that the morally best rules are international laws that are the same for all fighters.Examining real cases, including U.S. bombing of Iraq in 1991, the Clinton Administration decision not to intervene in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999, and CIA torture after 9/11 and its alternatives, th
He was a founding member of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland in 1976 and later a formative teacher of International Normative Theory. His publications include Climate Justice (OUP, 2014), Basic Rights (Princeton; 2nd ed., 1996), and co-edited Just and Unjust Warriors with David Rodin (OUP, 2008), and The American Way of Bombing with Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University Press, 2014).. About the AuthorHenry Shue is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Internation Studies, University of Oxford, and Senior
Five Stars Once again another brilliant effort by Prof Shue.
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