It's wrong on the face of it, period. There are few absolutes, but the destructive nature of torture goes far beyond the object of torture, the perpetrator. It rots everything.
Andrew Sullivan writes well on this:
Torture, when used, is like Tolkien's ring, when slipped on. It becomes its own power and its own rationale because it can coerce its own results. This is why civilized societies have placed the torture option off limits - way off limits with a wide berth in law and custom. Because it destroys the core elements of truth, freedom and fairness that are foundational for Western civilization.
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