It's true: despite decades of warnings from top scientists, ecocide remains an unfashionable issue, thanks in no small part to intensive lobbying and spin from agribusiness, biotech corporations and carbon barons, who use art world patronage to create an illusion of benevolence.
We could raise children, and educate ourselves and each other, in ways that greatly reduce violence in the world and create more caring and benevolence.
Amid the carnality there's a benevolence, created or heightened by context.
Rather than a provident benevolence creating a peaceful and beautiful sequence of events by which a remote island is populated, ending with colonization by humans, Darwin observes ugliness, the most disgusting and unpleasant creatures arriving first.
Continuing our foreign aid creates the friendships, benevolence and stability that result in safety for Americans abroad and at home.
We must consider that the benevolence created by our humanitarian largesse could be replaced with equal fury if the world sees America's leaders decide not to spend a tiny portion of our great wealth to save tens of millions of lives.
Men and women shouldn't hide these human traits at work, but give themselves permission to let them shine and make it the new leadership norm so we can create cultures of care and benevolence.
The City Council's misguided benevolence in creating "safe sleeping zones" will not only worsen homelessness but also jeopardize the health and safety of the very people the Council wants to help.
He examines the twists and turns of slavery's development and the contingencies that set human history off in unexpected directions: the patent evil that redounds to the good and the earnest benevolence that creates untold pain.
A being so powerful and so full of knowledge as a God who could create the universe, is to our finite minds omnipotent and omniscient, and it revolts our understanding to suppose that his benevolence is not unbounded, for what advantage can there be in the suffering of millions of the low animals throughout almost endless time?
