"Torture Is always Wrong"

Law prof Paul Campos (Colorado) explains:

Torture is wrong. It is always wrong, at all times, in all places, no matter what good one imagines might come from torturing a fellow human being.

It is wrong because to torture a fellow human being destroys the torturer's own soul as surely as it destroys the body and mind of his victim.

Here is a basic truth, understood by all religions and peoples who have not yet sunk into total barbarism: Mortality is only possible if there are certain things we must refuse to do under any circumstances. You do not "balance" the costs and benefits of torturing your fellow men, because it does not profit a man to gain the world if he loses his soul.

UPDATE:  "Five Reasons Torture Is Always Wrong," from Christianity Today.