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	<title>The Public Philosopher &#187; Torture</title>
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		<title>The trolley problem at West Point</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/19/the-trolley-problem-at-west-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophy for soldiers David Edmonds at BBC News reports that all West Point cadets are now required to study moral philosophy and &#8220;the trolley problem.&#8221; He outlines the famous thought experiment nicely: Imagine there is a runaway tram, known in America as a trolley, heading towards five people tied to the track. You are a [...]


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		<title>Crimes against humanity: with oppression and injustice for most</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/27/crimes-against-humanity-with-oppression-and-injustice-for-most/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For his role in 16,000 deaths during the Khmer Rouge, Kaing Guek Eav, alias “Duch,” was recently sentenced to 35 years in prison. That he may walk free in 19 years at the age of 86 due to time served has baffled and infuriated Cambodians. The worst tyrants of the last century mostly escaped formal [...]


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		<title>I shall not tell a lie (unless I have to)</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/09/15/i-shall-not-tell-a-lie-unless-i-have-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting exchange between Adam Liptak of the New York Times and Andy McCarthy at the Corner: Two other brief points should be made. First, Adam argues that the founding generation &#8220;thought secrecy in government one of the instruments of Old World tyranny and committed itself to the principle that a democracy cannot function unless [...]


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		<title>Skirting the real question</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/09/03/skirting-the-real-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Broder writes out against individual accountability for potential Bush-era abuses.  He&#8217;s not standing with those who defend the alleged practices, just worried the costs are too high: In times like these, the understandable desire to enforce individual accountability must be weighed against the consequences. This country is facing so many huge challenges at home [...]


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		<title>Do unto others</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/09/01/do-unto-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Thomas Sowell&#8217;s syndicated column: So many &#8220;rights&#8221; have been conjured up out of thin air that many people seem unaware that rights and obligations derive from explicit laws, not from politically correct pieties. If you don&#8217;t meet the terms of the Geneva Conventions, then the Geneva Conventions don&#8217;t protect you. If you are not [...]


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		<title>Torture Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/05/19/torture-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 04:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blocking the release of the photos reflects an age old debate in international relations. President Obama’s decision to try and block the release of torture photos has added a twist to the classic tension between democratic openness and national security. The argument for withholding release of the photos is fairly straightforward: the images have the [...]


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		<title>Tired of torture yet?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/05/13/tired-of-torture-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/05/13/tired-of-torture-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we make hard decisions? Former CIA and congressional counsel Vicki Divoll makes an intelligent interjection in the ongoing torture debates in today&#8217;s New York Times. First, she points out that the CIA notifying only four Members of Congress when it commenced coercive interrogations in 2002 essentially subverts the Constitutional allocation of power to [...]


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		<title>Linker, Sullivan, and torture (continued)</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/05/04/linker-sullivan-and-torture-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 21:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick follow-up on torture. Damon Linker had a thoughtful but, I thought, incomplete post on the nature of executive power in uncommon or emergency circumstances. I argued that, because it is in the polity’s best interest to create strong disincentives to unconventional and generally illegal actions on the part of the executive, the conversation [...]


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