Sentences with phrase «consulting professional codes of conduct»
He thus chides me for consulting professional codes of conduct in deliberating about the morality of enhanced interrogation.
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He suggests that I think the moral authority of a democratically enacted law rests on no basis other than its existence, that «conscientious reflection on enhanced interrogation need consult neither the norms of international law nor codes of professional conduct,» and that I maintain a «narrow focus on the mere existence of a law (or its interpretation) and not its substance.»
It would be unfair to draw wholesale conclusions about his understanding of the moral authority that inheres in law from a book review, but he apparently holds the view that conscientious reflection on enhanced interrogation need consult neither norms of international law nor codes of professional conduct.