The morality of torture

When is torture wrong? Always? I came at this initially from a human rights position. It is then a relatively easy question to answer. In interviewing men who have tortured, I decided to take in a post-modern position as I was incapable of understanding their positions and beliefs from a pre-determined moral position. It is no longer an easy question to answer. They position themselves as a sacrifice for the community - they torture because we expect them to. I have had to consider whether they are correct. I think they are. We expect them to do whatever dirty work that is needed to protect us, but we do not want to know about it. We need to take in a moral stance and say that torture is wrong. This is necessary to protect our personal sense of integrity, of being good people.