"It is necessary, and indeed a duty, to honour their memory, for whenever memory fades, it means that evil allows wounds to fester.
It is necessary, and indeed a duty, to honour their memory, for whenever memory fades, it means that evil allows wounds to fester," he said in St Peter's Basilica.
Less intervention will be the lesser evil, allowing the economy to rebalance itself in time.
While this account of evil allows for a wide range of motivations, it does specify that evildoers must foresee the harm they produce and lack a moral justification for producing the harm.
Francis said it was "necessary, and indeed a duty," to remember the Armenians killed, "for whenever memory fades, it means that evil allows wounds to fester.
It's also important to recognize that choosing who we vote for on the basis of who's the lesser evil allows the continued creep of the Greater Evil.
To understand violence by means of its instrumental character and not by personification of evil allows the victims to elaborate on their suffering based on the functions that violence operates in that relationship, and not based on a moral judgment of the aggressor.
As Neiman writes, "Precisely the belief that evil actions require evil intentions allowed totalitarian regimes to convince people to override moral objections that might otherwise have functioned" — heinous acts are all too easily rationalized by loyalty to supposedly higher values, and personal feelings of guilt are all too unreliable.
President Bush's harsh comment that Iran is part of the "axis of evil" has allowed Iran's conservatives to claim they are defenders of the republic while they tighten the reins on the reformist majority.
"What we ultimately want is the chance to expose how this evil was allowed to occur and who financed it," said Lynn Faulkner, an Ohio man whose wife was killed in the south tower of the World Trade Center, in an interview Friday.
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