Rebecca Gordon, Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco and for the university’s Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good. She is the author of Mainstreaming Torture Ethical Approaches in the Post 9/11 United States. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some began to suggest that, in these new circumstances, the new answer was “yes.” Rebecca Gordon argues that September 11 did not, as some have said, “change everything,” and that institutionalized state torture remains as wrong today as it was on the day before those terrible attacks….
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