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	<title><![CDATA[Moral Relativism:  A Little Torture is Just Fine?]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/moral-relativism-a-little_b_191568.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Defense of the Bush Administration's decision to sanction "enhanced interrogation techniques" all boils down to a single argument: torture works. The ends justify the means. Former Vice President Cheney has made this exact argument in several recent interviews. </p>

<p>Cheney's line of reasoning is deeply flawed for three critical reasons: 1) abundant evidence, which we will examine, suggests that torture is not an effective means of gathering actionable intelligence, 2) defining if something "works" is arbitrary and therefore subject to abuse...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-04-28T12:37:00-04:00</date_published>
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