What, According to Dershowitz, Is the Primary Source of the Public's

question 28

Multiple Choice

What, according to Dershowitz, is the primary source of the public's irrational revulsion to nonlethal torture?

• A) We wrongly consider pain a much greater evil than death, which entails the absence of pain.
• B) We wrongly associate nonlethal torture with vivid cases in which torture has been used a prelude to death.
• C) We wrongly believe nonlethal torture of the innocent to violate "an eye for an eye" principles of justice.
• D) We wrongly believe torture to be ineffective and, thus, an unnecessary infliction of pain.

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