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For punishment of systematic, historical human rights crimes as a matter of government policy is only morally justified if it is designed to protect society from greater evils in the future.
The two countries that most clearly represent the evils of neo-colonialism and racism in the eyes of the sectarian left are Israel and the US.
The most sinister form of anti-Zionism is to be found among leftists who see Israel and the US as the planet’s twin evils.
Even if democracy might be viewed primarily as an evil from an Islamic point of view, there is another principle of interpretation of religious laws in Islam, according to which minor evils – even if religiously impermissible or not recommended at first – become permissible, recommended, and even mandatory if they alone can prevent major evils.
None of these evils will end until basic education is made compulsory for all – just as was done in the West more than a century ago.
So the world community must resist unilateral efforts at separation because separatism today is much more dangerous than during the post-colonial era due to the twin evils of international terrorism and religious extremism.
Instead, American officials often delivered to their Russian counterparts lectures on the evils of the Assad regime.
In a certain ideological mind-set, Israel is perceived not as a political entity, susceptible to prevailing standards of judgment, but as an almost allegorical force, the symbolic center and source of the globe’s evils and ailments.
Protecting people from mass-atrocity crimes will always be about assessing the risks and identifying the lesser of several evils in a particular situation.
Health Food Truths“Low-carbohydrate” pasta is in a category of health foods known in the trade as “lesser evils” – foods with fewer unwanted calories, fat, trans fat, sugars, salt, or carbohydrates.
This is not to diminish the value of some of the lesser evils – low-fat milk and yogurt, for example.
Marijuana policy involves a choice between the evils of current repressive policies and the evils of increased use under a legal market.
Exponents of US policy argue that in war it is sometimes necessary to choose the lesser of two evils.
“In addition to the risk involved by any violent method of progress,” Keynes argues, “there is this further consideration that is often in need of emphasis: it is not sufficient that the state of affairs which we seek to promote should be better than the state of affairs which preceded it; it must be sufficiently better to make up for the evils of the transition.”
But in the runoff, enough voters viewed him as the lesser of two evils to enable him to win by a comfortable nine-point margin.
So is it really in the interest of the US to try to "prevent other great powers from rising?"Shouldn't America's leaders be trying to shorten the period that other societies are vulnerable to the evils that made the twentieth century the bloodiest in the history of mankind?
In this sense, Germany, having stifled the evils of aggressive nationalism, remains the most “European” country in Europe.
Bold endeavors are needed to combat all the many evils that have resurfaced, in all their width and depth, as an aftermath of the collapse of the old structures.
Instead, a vocal segment of Britain’s political class and electorate has long blamed the EU and its institutions – some of which require member states to cede part of their sovereignty – for all the evils of this world.
To be sure, there are many evils connected to prostitution today, just as there were in Shaw’s time.
It is not enough, however, simply to note the evils associated with prostitution.
Bringing such practices out of the shadows encourages the development of measures that mitigate its associated evils.
He will continue, instead, to preach against the evils of secular society and the dangerous temptations of liberalism.
Dinner parties in Manhattan and Kensington were consumed with the finer points of Basel II and the evils of procyclical capital requirements.
That spending binge will feed corruption, inflation, and natural-resource dependency – the three evils with which Kudrin has fought throughout his tenure.
But that was not enough to save the government in June’s state election, which produced a new communist administration that, advocating education about the evils of alcohol instead of a ban, has promised to review the prohibition policy.
This might, perhaps, create a climate in which there would not be so much particularism in the world, so much indifference, so much tolerance for obvious evils, indifference often motivated by egoism or by narrow economic or geopolitical interests.
It is over-regulated and inflexible and, on top of these twin evils, is expensive even at the current low level of the Euro.
Let us call its constituent evils by their ancient names.
This can drive our powerful impulse to deal with distant evils through sanctions, bombings, and war.
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