The Consequences of Torture

Those who want to justify torture see it as a means to an end. They're prepared to do a kind of consequentialist analysis, see what the consequences are and whether it is justified. Whereas those who want to have an absolute prohibition on it believe there's no point beyond which people should not go. Because they had been convinced by consequentialists, it's true they thought the consequences of not committing torture might be truly horrible. It was my impression that they thought that torture would then be the lesser evil, and they meant it as an evil.