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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
The deliberate infliction of severe physical or mental suffering, for example to obtain information, punish or intimidate.
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Paper 2
The deliberate infliction of severe physical or mental suffering to obtain information, punish, intimidate or control someone.
Revise: Catholic Perspectives on Terrorism, Torture and MartyrdomTorture deliberately inflicts severe physical or mental suffering to obtain information, punish, frighten or control someone. It is not limited to causing visible injuries: severe psychological suffering also matters.
Specification 2.7 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
Apply a teaching to the issue: explain why loving enemies rules out terror or why human dignity rules out torture, rather than simply adding a quotation.
Distinguish official Catholic teaching from an individual Christian’s opinion. Catholic teaching does not permit terrorism or torture for a supposedly good outcome.
Distinguish official Catholic rejection of torture from a situation ethicist’s possible justification of it.
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The deliberate use of severe physical or psychological suffering, for example to obtain information or confessions, punish someone or intimidate them.
Torture deliberately inflicts severe physical or psychological suffering, for example to obtain a confession or information, punish someone or frighten opponents.
Deliberately inflicting severe physical or mental suffering, for example to obtain information or punish someone.
Deliberately inflicting severe physical or mental suffering, for example to obtain information, punish or intimidate.
Deliberately inflicting severe physical or psychological suffering to punish someone, intimidate them or force them to provide information.
The deliberate infliction of severe physical or mental suffering, for example to obtain information or force a confession.
