Keith Magnuson attacks the “lesser of two evils” justification of torture. If, as Krauthammer believed, torture is a “monstrous evil” but less evil than the alternative, this doesn’t mean we ought do it (as Magnuson points out, these arguments often reduce to emotivism). Note that this article assumes that torture is an absolute evil – if it isn’t, it may still be the case that Christians ought never use torture, but at the very least it means that torture isn’t categorically banned.