How to Justify Torture: Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario

by Alex Adams

Book Overview

From Batman Begins to Tom Clancy, How to Justify Torture shows how contemporary culture creates simplified narratives about good guy torturers and bad guy victims, how dangerous this is politically, and what we can do to challenge it.

If there was a bomb hidden somewhere in a major city, and you had the person responsible in your custody, would you torture them to get the information needed to stop the bomb exploding, preventing a devastating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912248581
• ISBN13: 9781912248582
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Repeater
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.7"