I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass:… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
