Law-makers breaking the law: torture as a justified interrogation technique?
In the end of last year, Senate
Intelligence Chairman Dianne Feinstein released the executive summary of the
committee’s five-year review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program. Also in
this, the US Senate has recognized that “there are those who will seize upon the report
and say “see what Americans did,” and they will try to use it to justify evil actions or to
incite more violence“ (Feinstein, 2014).
Wasting valuable time
It is important to note that utilitarians only categorized things as either good or bad. If a
consequence of an act brings maximum happiness to the greatest number of people, it is
good, which however doesn't mean the act automatically should be considered as
inherently good. The criterion for justification of an act according to utilitarianism said
that an act is only good if there is no possible alternative that would have led to a bigger
sum of wellbeing in the world (Driver, 2014). What the presumption does not consider
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