Multiple Choice
What, according to Dershowitz, is the primary source of the public's irrational revulsion to nonlethal torture?
A) We wrongly consider pain a much greater evil than death, which entails the absence of pain.
B) We wrongly associate nonlethal torture with vivid cases in which torture has been used a prelude to death.
C) We wrongly believe nonlethal torture of the innocent to violate "an eye for an eye" principles of justice.
D) We wrongly believe torture to be ineffective and, thus, an unnecessary infliction of pain.
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