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This essay examines the concept of cruelty as a persistent and paradoxical feature of human society and the law’s uneven efforts to define, regulate, and at times justify it. Drawing on philosophy, literature, international human rights instruments, and American constitutional doctrine, the essay develops a functional definition of cruelty grounded in intentional suffering, lack of moral necessity, and violations of human dignity. It traces how U.S. law addresses cruelty across doctrinal domains—including criminal punishment, constitutional protections, tort law, immigration law, and family law—while highlighting the tension between the law’s stated abhorrence of cruelty and its continued tolerance or deployment of it for utilitarian ends. The essay further explores state-sponsored and legally sanctioned forms of cruelty, interrogating contemporary practices such as capital punishment, assisted suicide, abortion, deportation, and systemic social conditions like homelessness. Ultimately, it argues that while Western legal systems profess evolving standards of decency, cruelty remains embedded in legal structures, often obscured by necessity, deterrence, or moral abstraction, and that a clearer jurisprudential engagement with human dignity is essential to meaningfully confronting cruelty in modern law.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This essay examines the concept of cruelty as a persistent and paradoxical feature of human society and the law's uneven efforts to define, regulate, and at times justify it. Drawing on philosophy, literature, international human rights instruments, and American constitutional doctrine, the essay develops a functional definition of cruelty grounded in intentional suffering, lack of moral necessity, and violations of human dignity. It traces how U.S. law addresses cruelty across doctrinal domains-including criminal punishment, constitutional protections, tort law, immigration law, and family law-while highlighting the tension between the law's stated abhorrence of cruelty and its continued tolerance or deployment of it for utilitarian ends. The essay further explores state-sponsored and legally sanctioned forms of cruelty, interrogating contemporary practices such as capital punishment, assisted suicide, abortion, deportation, and systemic social conditions like homelessness. Ultimately, it argues that while Western legal systems profess evolving standards of decency, cruelty remains embedded in legal structures, often obscured by necessity, deterrence, or moral abstraction, and that a clearer jurisprudential engagement with human dignity is essential to meaningfully confronting cruelty in modern law. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798997871123
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