Exam 17: Political Violence: War, Terrorism, and Torture

Eminent realists of the past and present include:

The intentional inflicting of severe pain or suffering on people to punish or intimidate them or to extract information from them is referred to as:

Assume that the U.S.invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was an act of self-defense against the Taliban regime.An antiwar pacifist would probably judge the war to be ________,and a humanitarian interventionist would say that ________.

Suppose you are a utilitarian,and suppose it is an empirical fact that wars invariably cause more bad consequences than good.To be consistent,you then would have to accept the view known as:

As defined in the text,the physical or psychological attack on,or the vigorous abuse of,persons,causing their suffering,injury,or death is:

A plausible nonconsequentialist argument for pacifism is:

According to the text,violence against noncombatants for political,religious,or ideological ends is:

Suppose you took a Kantian means-end view of torture.You then would likely judge torture to be:

The resort to violence for political ends is referred to as:

The just war theorist Michael Walzer asserts that terrorism is wrong because:

A war launched because an attack from another state is not actual but merely feared is known as a(n):

Suppose State A launches an unprovoked attack on State B.According to the usual interpretation of just war theory,State B has just cause for going to war against State A-namely:

Consider the "ticking bomb" scenario,which is used to justify using torture to fight terrorism.Some who are opposed to torture believe that ticking-bomb scenarios are too contrived to be taken seriously;such states of affairs simply don't happen in the real world.A plausible counterargument to this position is that:

In just war theory,the justification for resorting to war has traditionally been labeled:

People who should not be intentionally attacked in war are said to have:

The doctrine that war may be morally permissible under stipulated conditions is known as:

In war the distinction between combatant and noncombatant is:

Suppose that terrorism is defined broadly as the deliberate use of violence against noncombatants for political or ideological purposes.In this case the Allied bombings of Dresden and other German cities in World War II and the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be considered:

Suppose the Iraq War,which began in 2003 when the United States and its allies attacked Iraq,started because President George W.Bush and his advisors feared that Saddam Hussein might be dangerous.And suppose at that time there was no evidence that Iraq was an immediate and imminent threat-that is,there was no evidence that Iraq had nearly completed plans to attack the United States with weapons of mass destruction.If these were the facts,most just war theorists would probably have judged the attack by the United States to be:

The view that war is never morally permissible is known as: