The problem is that we all have the power to inflict that evil on one another — even the strongest man can be murdered while he sleeps — and so we are forced to treat one another as standing threats.
No balanced pieties about freedom and democracy, just a cool insistence on evil on the one hand and western civilisation on the other.
"Occupation is evil on its own," said Ahmed Maher, Egypt's foreign minister, in his speech to the conference.
If the principle of civil recourse is not so grounded, then the principle apparently does no more than license one party to inflict an evil on another.
"I'm under absolutely no obligation whatsoever to be impartial as between the forces of democracy on the one hand and the forces of evil on the other," he said.
I don't remember if my parents ever used the word "God" in a sentence, but I heard plenty about the value of a dollar, on the one hand, and money as the root of all evil, on the other.
Who is most evil on the internet?
Evil, on the other hand, is.
Terry Eagleton delivers a sermon on evil on 19 September.
In the U.S., she was condemned as a "powerful force for evil" on the Senate floor.
"We're still a victim of the massive evil on the other side," Joe Garcia said.
