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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an evil action" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a deed or behavior that is morally wrong or harmful. Example: "The villain's plan involved an evil action that would endanger the entire city."
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His action is an evil action, but he's human".
It is universally accepted that to perform an evil action an agent must be morally responsible for what she does.
Critics argue that it is not necessary to take pleasure in doing wrong to perform an evil action since it is sufficient to intentionally cause significant harm for an unworthy goal such as self-interest (Calder 2013).
These theorists consider the concept of evil action to be a derivative concept, i.e., they define an evil action as the sort of action that an evil person performs.
For instance, some people believe that to say that someone performed an evil action implies that that person acted out of malice (see e.g., Kekes 2005), while others believe that evildoing can result from many different sorts of motives, even good motives (see e.g., Card 2002).
According to this view, theorists who believe that sadistic voyeurs perform evil actions confuse evil action with evil character: the sadistic voyeur is an evil person, but she does not perform an evil action because she does not cause any harm (for more about evil character see Section 4).
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The "progressives attract crime" is a self-fulfilling prophecy dictated by the circumstances progressives are in, not by any evil action of theirs.
It finished with a call for action and reminds Muslims to speak out if they see any "evil action".
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk do a ton of objectively bad stuff, but I just want to be clear that the mere act of holding onto that much money in a world with this much inequality is in itself a brutally evil action, and alone makes them bad people.
Most philosophers, and laypeople, assume that wrongfulness is an essential component of evil action (See e.g., Card 2002, Garrard 1999, Formosa 2008).
One necessarily evil action begets an eternity of more.
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