{"id":2607,"date":"2003-01-10T22:57:01","date_gmt":"2003-01-10T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/10\/when-is-torture-justified\/"},"modified":"2003-01-10T22:57:01","modified_gmt":"2003-01-10T17:27:01","slug":"when-is-torture-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/when-is-torture-justified\/","title":{"rendered":"When is torture justified?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><font size = -1>Suppose you know that there is a bomb about to go off which could claim thousands of victims. You have good reason to believe that a prisoner knows where it is, and that torture may force him to tell. Would you allow him to be tortured? <\/font><\/cite>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/opinion\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1524784\" class=\"source\"><span class = \"source\">Economist.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>If you would,<\/p>\n<p><cite><font size = -1>then how much cruelty would be permitted? Would threats against the prisoner&#8217;s family be all right? His neighbours? His country? <\/font><\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you know that there is a bomb about to go off which could claim thousands of victims. You have good reason to believe that a prisoner knows where it is, and that torture may force him to tell. Would you allow him to be tortured? (Economist.com) If you would, then how much cruelty would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}