Verkkothis chapter analyses the ‘ticking bomb scenario’ (tbs), which is frequently used to justify torture. Topics covered include myth and fact in the tbs; The tbs and the. Verkkothis paper seeks to understand the affective work that the ‘ticking time bomb scenario’ and its imagined dramatization does in shaping how torture is. In other words, torture aims to strip away from. Verkkothe question that this thought experiment addresses is whether we should use torture to obtain the information from the terrorist that can prevent the catastrophe. It prompts some to invoke the maxim that. Therefore, we should torture in those cases.
