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The Torturer's Dilemma: A Theoretical Analysis of the Societal Consequences of Torturing Terrorist Suspects |
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| Authors: | Vladimir A. Lefebvre Jonathan David Farley |
| Affiliation: | 1. School of Social Sciences , University of California , Irvine, California, USA;2. Center for International Security and Cooperation , Stanford University , Stanford, California, USA;3. Department of Mathematics , Harvard University , Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Abstract: | Terrorism today is one of the main threats to Western civilization. Almost as dire a threat is the fight against terrorism itself. A broad spectrum of antiterrorism measures may significantly change the nature of society by destroying those forms of cooperative activity that underlie Western culture. This threat becomes obvious with an analysis of mathematical models of human moral behavior. |
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