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In a similar vein, Jerry Walls has spoken of the damned making a decisive choice of evil (see Walls 1992, Ch. 5).
It is most relevant, perhaps, in cases where someone imagines sinners freely choosing annihilation (Kvanvig), or imagines them freely making a decisive and irreversible choice of evil (Walls), or imagines them freely locking the gates of hell from the inside (C. S. Lewis).
They have limited my defense, not allowing the necessity defense, also known colloquially as the "choice of evil" defense.
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In the unlikely event that the woman were charged with criminal trespassing, her attorney would use a choice-of-evils defense, also known as a necessity defense, to get her acquitted.
That would enable Mr. DeChristopher to argue that he faced a "choice of evils" that justified breaking the law.
His lawyer, Ronald J. Yengich, recently asked that the jury be allowed to consider a defense of necessity, or "choice of evils," when the trial begins, perhaps early next year.
Defendants must show that they faced a choice of evils: to break a law or to allow some other bad result to proceed.
It is not so much about the substantive issue of torture as it is about accountability, visibility, and candor in a democracy that is confronting a choice of evils.
For those readers who prefer facts to name calling, here is the link and here are the cites to other articles I have written about this contentious and difficult choice of evils that all democracies must face.
He thinks that dirty hands situations confront an agent with a choice of two evils and the agent should always choose the lesser evil.
"It's a choice of two evils," he said.
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