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It was my impression that the torture debate was settled after World War II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva
by jobu 12y ago
It was my impression that the torture debate was settled after World War II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions
Torture is wrong, bad, illegal, and ineffective. In a modern world it shouldn't be supported, even from an "Old Testament" sort of good guy.
- dvt 12y agoSmall correction: the Geneva Convention says nothing about the effectiveness of torture, although other sources may. And the philosophical debate is far from over; it is ongoing: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/torture/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/torture/ Reading some of the literature can be quite fascinating. Ouch, the down-votes :(
- r00fus 12y agoYou're getting down voted because, knowingly or not, you're using conversational terrorism [1] techniques. Wary minds see/hear these words and immediately ignore any of your content. Think of it as a debating equivalent of pulling a godwin. [1] http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html
- dvt 12y agoWhat conventional terrorism technique have I used? Here's an analogue of what happened. Bob says: yeah it's pretty easy to see that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.[1] I say: not so fast, you can't just claim things like that. I mean it might be intuitive or 'generally accepted' (and even stochastically probable!), but the truth-value of such a statement is difficult to prove. [1] Goldbach's conjecture.
- snowwrestler 12y agoI'm not sure philosophers debating is a useful signal about whether an issue is settled. I'm having a hard time thinking of a topic on which philosophers would not debate.