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is morally worse than killing in a just war because it violates the prohibition against assaulting the defenseless.

Torture,' Philosophy and Public Affairs 7, no. 2 (Winter 1978): 1240143, argues that torture is morally worse than killing in a just war because it violates the prohibition against assaulting the defenseless, but he suggests that there is at least one imaginable case in which interrogational torture might be justified: the now-famous ticking-bomb case. As Shue describes the case, there is a fanatic who has hidden a nuclear bomb set to explode in Paris, and the only way to prevent the destruction of Paris is to torture the fanatic to find out where the bomb is hidden so that it can be found and deactivated.

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