The word 'badness' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to the quality or state of being bad or unpleasant. Example: The badness of the weather made it impossible for us to have a picnic.
This is actually one of the reasons why Plutarch defends temporal creation; if the world were eternal and God responsible for it, then God would be the cause of both good and bad, while on Plutarch's interpretation of the Timaeus badness is accounted for by the evil world soul, which, as I said above, according to Plutarch is pre-cosmic (see Dillon 2002, 234; see also below, sect. 4.3).
He formulates a view according to which (to put matters roughly) to say that a state of affairs is intrinsically good or bad is to say that it is possible that its goodness or badness constitutes all the goodness or badness that there is in the world (Chisholm 1978).
During the intervening period, the madness and badness had abated somewhat.
But George Bush and Tony Blair told the world that Mr Hussein should be removed not only because of his badness in general, but also because of one particular facet of it: Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Some in his administration though not the robustly unapologetic vice-president— now seem to be inserting them retrospectively, and Mr Bush himself is emphasising Mr Hussein's general badness.
Evidence of his badness is being exhumed daily from the ground of the country he once ruled, and corroborated in his torture chambers and the loot he hoarded while ordinary Iraqis went hungry.
But the sensational allegation that its players plotted with gamblers to fix elements of a recent Test match against England has turned a bout of badness into full-blown crisis.
Thus his collapse into deep, terrible badness feels so under motivated that when he arrives in St Trinity, Robert Stone's stand-in for Haiti, it is as if he got on the wrong plane by accident.
The same goes for badness.
The DDE permits X to perform T only if: 1) T is otherwise permissible; 2) X only intends J and not U; 3) U is not a means to J; and 4) the goodness of J is worth, or is proportionately greater than, the badness of U. Assume now that X is a country and T is war.
According to this view, actions have no intrinsic (pre-positive) goodness or badness (or, even if they have some goodness and badness, this does not determine or constrain what we ought to do).
