I’ve been on the “torture beat” for a long time. It makes me a real drag at dinner parties, so I decided to move those conversations out to the web and to the media.
So much of the current discussion in the media about torture is focusing on, “Does it work?” There is little focus on, “Is it right?”
People in the media are looking at the legality, but not the morality. Discussing morality makes the mainstream media uncomfortable. To help them out, I’ve been suggesting they talk to Dr. Rebecca Gordon, a philosophy professor at University of San Francisco, who wrote this book:
Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post – 9/11 United States.
(It got great reviews from Torture Magazine! Seriously, there is a Torture Magazine.)
Here she is on Fox News 2 KTVU last night.
This morning she was on the Majority Report with Sam Seder. (Audio link.She starts at 30 minutes in.)
Because she has a depth of knowledge she can talk about the legal and political issues around torture, but especially the moral issues. We need to talk about that. The moral condemnation of acts of torture is not a given today.
Bill O’Reilly thinks . . . → Read More: Here’s What The Media Isn’t Talking About, the Immorality of Torture
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