The focus on house prices as the evil of evils for the young is also misleading.
This is a book about evil, the evil of death, the evil of banality: "he must have known he wasn't going to make it".
Standing here in the Hall of Remembrance, our thoughts must encompass the victims of all these genocides, for they are all the victims of the same evil, the evil of bigotry and intolerance that this Museum is mandated and pledged to expose and fight against, not with guns, bombs and missiles, but with ideas and ideals.
This is the argument from evil, which holds that because the world contains evil (or evil of some specific type, or of some amount, or distributed in some way), then this world is not under the control of an absolutely perfect — at least, omniscient, omnipotent, and morally perfect — being.
Evil was restricted to the works of evil men and their evil wills.
They may well be pissing on our graves for having ruined the planet, and these disks may simply be destroyed as examples of the evil Evil EVIL petroleum age.
One kills the other, either in a final, somewhat Oedipal, triumph of good over evil or evil over good, depending.
1 Thessalonians 5 15-17 says, "See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.
Twain used the occasion to call attention to evils — the evils of King Leopold of Belgium, whose regime was busy brutalizing and massacring the native population of the Congo; and of the American financiers who held lucrative mining contracts there.
