Sentence examples for arguments for torture from inspiring English sources

The theoretical arguments for torture are slippery and dangerous.

Until Obama's election the CIA's argument for torture was straightforward.

Yet surely this is a redundant argument, for torture is a horror that knows no gender difference.

The argument for torture is usually one in which there is a so-called "ticking time bomb" forcing law-enforcement officials to get information as quickly as possible, to save lives.

In fact McCain wrote about giving his captors false information to stop the abuse, and this is not the first time Limbaugh has falsely tried to use McCain's words and experience to buttress an argument for torture.

That might possibly be an argument in a criminal prosecution for torture.

She led the way in demolishing the arguments for ID cards, 42-day detention, torture, and imprisoning foreign terror suspects without trial, and was equally outspoken on surveillance culture and asbos.

The pro-EIT arguments of a Marc Thiessen, faithfully channeling Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, amount essentially to a utilitarian justification of a euphemism for torture in the name of national security.

Mr. Rumsfeld and other defendants made an argument limited by place: it was in a war zone that no government or military employee could be sued for torture.

There are many arguments against torture.

The same goes for torture: a sign of ethical progress is the fact that torture is "dogmatically" rejected as repulsive, without any need for argument.