Are there times when we have to accept torture?
Every regime that commits this crime does so in the name of salvation
Ariel Dorfman
Saturday May 8, 2004
The Guardian
Is torture ever justified? That is the dirty question left out of the
universal protestations of disgust, revulsion and shame that has
greeted the release of photos showing British and American soldiers
tormenting prisoners in Iraq.
It is a question that was most unforgettably put forward over 130
years ago by Fyodor Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov. In that
novel, the saintly Alyosha Karamazov is tempted by his brother Ivan,
confronted with an unbearable choice. Let us suppose, Ivan says, that
in order to bring men eternal happiness, it was essential and
inevitable to torture to death one tiny creature, only one small
child. Would you consent?
Ariel Dorfman
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