PERIODICALS
RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
era1 moral principle that prohibits assaults on the defenseless. Torture, Shue notes, has nothing to do with a "fair fight" between declared combatants; it begins only after the fight is finished.
"Suppose a fanatic, perfectly willing to die rather than collaborate in the thwarting of his own scheme, has set a hidden nuclear device to explode in the heart of Paris. There is no time to evacuate the innocent people or even the movable art t...