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How to Justify Torture
- Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario
Engelsk Paperback
How to Justify Torture
- Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario
Engelsk Paperback

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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 terrorist attack and saving thousands of lives?

This is the ticking bomb scenario -- a thought experiment designed to demonstrate that torture can be justified.

In How to Justify Torture, cultural critic Alex Adams examines the ticking bomb scenario in-depth, looking at the ways it is presented in films, novels, and TV shows -- from Batman Begins and Dirty Harry to French military thrillers and home invasion narratives. By critiquing its argument step by step, this short, provocative book reminds us that, despite what the ticking bomb scenario will have us believe, torture can never be justified.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
160
ISBN-13:
9781912248582
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1912248581
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Udg. Dato:
10 sep 2019
Længde:
10mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
130mm
Forlag:
Watkins Media Limited
Oplagsdato:
10 sep 2019
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