Once the fourth stage is achieved, evil is overcome.
In this case, our agency is involved only to the extent that we have shown ourselves as being willing to tolerate evil results flowing from our acts; but we have not set out to achieve such evil by our acts.
"The willingness of terrorists to commit suicide to achieve their evil aims makes the nuclear terrorism threat far more likely than it was before Sept. 11," Mr. Baradei said.
Maybe it wouldn't work, and mass killers would nevertheless go on to achieve through their evil work the glory of infamy.
Students learn from their teachers that disobeying the law in a peaceful way is a necessary evil to achieve constructive results.
He asks: "What, after all, is 'collateral damage' but the inadvertent torture of innocent men, women and children?" The question that naturally follows is: if we are prepared to accept collateral damage as a necessary evil to achieve a goal, with all the loss of innocent life that implies, then why are we not prepared to accept torture as a means of advancing towards the same goal?
Social presence is an important part of marketing for brand awareness, discoverability and developing your voice, and cultivating a following on these leased social platforms is a necessary evil to achieve this.
Such problems are often described with the vocabulary of "dirty hands", but, as Rubenstein argues, this description is misplaced since, for one thing, the aid agencies do not themselves intentionally do harm to avoid some great evil or achieve some great good.
To make your villain believable, make them honestly believe that what they do is good, just necessary evil to achieve larger good, justifiable or something that can be shrugged off for some reason.
