> It would imply that it's morally permissible to torture a sentient being as long as no human cares about it.

Yes, I agree. To me it reads as an apology to sociopathy.

i don't want to get too far into it but if no human cares enough to call it immoral than how can it be immoral? Morality is a strictly human invention.

No, not necessarily so. But arguing for the existence of objective morality that stretches across the entire universe seems to be a huge stretch.

For what it’s worth, my subjective sense of morality is opposed to torture.

I think this lends intent toward the article that it doesn't necessarily warrant.

The author is just wrong about the philosophy, and the logic (and probably other things too). That doesn't mean he's a sociopath, or that he's defending sociopathic things.