{"id":145,"date":"2007-09-20T20:49:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2007-10-15T20:55:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T20:55:21","slug":"torture-isnt-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/torture-isnt-justified\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture isn&#8217;t justified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s my conclusion after reading an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/international\/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9832909\">essay on torture<\/a> by The Economist.\u00a0 The analysis indicates that generally torture is not effective or justified, though the\u00a0 argument that it might save lives is that of the devil&#8217;s advocate and does not stand up to ethical scrutiny.\u00a0 Its justification can only ever be self-serving and therefore unbalanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s my conclusion after reading an essay on torture by The Economist.\u00a0 The analysis indicates that generally torture is not effective or justified, though the\u00a0 argument that it might save lives is that of the devil&#8217;s advocate and does not stand up to ethical scrutiny.\u00a0 Its justification can only ever be self-serving and therefore unbalanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-2l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}