Comments on: A Case for Torture? http://ghiasi.org/2007/03/a-case-for-torture/ Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:57:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lucia S. http://ghiasi.org/2007/03/a-case-for-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-856 Lucia S. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:30:25 +0000 http://ghiasi.org/blog.php/2007/03/29/a-case-for-torture/#comment-856 I was recently assigned with "the case for torture" and was trying to critique on this article as well. Appeal to emotion, logic fallacies and the lack of hard evidences are some of the most common themes for our essays. Yet when I was talking to my prof, she suggested that Michael Levin is by no means a fool and he knows what he was doing. In addition, because this article was published in Newsweek, it was not intended to be a peer-edited academic writing. And thus, those fallacies exist for a reason. I also noticed that Michael Levin has constructed a paradox where individuals are pushed to violate the norms and standards of a civil society in order to preserve it. But overall, I really liked your essay and it helped me open up some new thoughts. :) I was recently assigned with “the case for torture” and was trying to critique on this article as well. Appeal to emotion, logic fallacies and the lack of hard evidences are some of the most common themes for our essays. Yet when I was talking to my prof, she suggested that Michael Levin is by no means a fool and he knows what he was doing. In addition, because this article was published in Newsweek, it was not intended to be a peer-edited academic writing. And thus, those fallacies exist for a reason.

I also noticed that Michael Levin has constructed a paradox where individuals are pushed to violate the norms and standards of a civil society in order to preserve it.

But overall, I really liked your essay and it helped me open up some new thoughts. :)

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