Thought Experiments by Christopher Westley

Chris Westley is an assistant professor of economics at Jacksonville State University, Alabama. He writes:

The State claims the right to bring life in the world, to end it, to control the weather – to do anything. To deny its right to torture is to deny its omnipotence. Some people argue that the medieval scholastics’ development of Just War theory actually served to provide the king with the moral justification to engage in war. Maybe today’s torture debate is serving a similar purpose: to provide justification for the State to engage in torture.

Thought Experiments by Christopher Westley