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WHAT KIND OF PERSON COULD BE A TORTURER?
Author(s) -
Reeder Jr. John P.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2009.00415.x
Subject(s) - empathy , compassion , morality , torture , conscience , aside , politics , social psychology , psychology , set (abstract data type) , criminology , sociology , law , psychoanalysis , political science , philosophy , human rights , linguistics , computer science , programming language
What kind of persons could engage in political torture? Not only the morally impaired who lack empathy or compassion, or even the merely obedient, but also the righteous who struggle with conscience, and the realists who set morality aside.