The moral hazards of intuition pumps. Professor Miller’s Beating Case

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…. The scholarship rejecting arguments justifying torture on the basis of the ticking bomb thought experiment has increased significantly in both sophistication and size. In addition, the issue of the problematic nature of ‘intuition pumps’ has now become a field of study in its own right and some of it has even been applied to the field of torture arguments….