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What kind of person could be a torturer?
Journal of Religious Ethics 38 (1):67-92 (2010)
Abstract
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 asideMy notes
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