" The following will attempt to justify the perspective that torture, when used exclusively for information gathering purposes vital to the well-being of a large citizenry, is justifiable, even if its moral and ethical justification isn't nearly as soundly rationalized. ... If cost-benefit analysis and utilitarian calculus is so pervasive that it is even drawn from our psychological biology, and can be found in the very confines of the wild, this of course then shirks the argument that aggression in the form of "torture" can be considered "inhumane.... Another factor...

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" The following will attempt to justify the perspective that torture, when used exclusively for information gathering purposes vital to the well-being of a large citizenry, is justifiable, even if its moral and ethical justification isn't nearly as soundly rationalized. ... If cost-benefit analysis and utilitarian calculus is so pervasive that it is even drawn from our psychological biology, and can be found in the very confines of the wild, this of course then shirks the argument that aggression in the form of "torture" can be considered "inhumane.... Another factor...

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For example, according to James Rachels, the most common argument in support of euthanasia is one that we may call "the argument from mercy". ... Courts and moral philosophers alike have long accepted the proposition that people have the right to refuse medical treatment they find painful or difficult to bear, even if that refusal means certain death. ... Our reflexes and responses fit us to fight attackers, flee wild animals, and dodge out of the way of trucks. ...

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