This did not happen because bankers suddenly became evil, but because the incentives fundamentally changed.
For-profits companies are not inherently good or evil; they are motivated by incentives, and do what they are asked to do by their customers not more or less.
Yet, in every practical sense, once your record deal has enough zeros at the end of it, you are now incentive-aligned with those evil bankers.
Yet, in every practical sense, once your record deal has enough 0s at the end of it, you are now incentive-aligned with those evil bankers.
Moreover, same-sex marriage would expose gays and lesbians to the disadvantages, even evils, of marriage: economic incentives to stay in loveless marriages and reduced exit options which facilitate abuse and violence (Card 1996, 2007, Ettelbrick 1989).
(1) Some authors have advocated denying that incentives like that provided by the evil demon's threat can ever provide you any reason to desire something bad.
Republicans unhesitatingly attributed this to the evil effect of slavery which, it was claimed, destroyed incentives.
"We've seen such evil come out of our State Department, unfortunately, where financial incentives are withheld from countries unless they advance, for instance, the gay agenda," Bachmann said in comments posted online by Right Wing Watch.
But Kant holds that it is impossible for "a rational being of the sensible world" to exhibit "complete conformity of dispositions with the moral law," which he calls "holiness," because we can never extirpate the propensity of our reason to give priority to the incentives of inclination over the incentive of duty, which propensity Kant calls radical evil (5:122, 6 37).
