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First, there is evil, without question.
We all tend to use the term "evil" without being willing to define it.
Their meetings are the marrow of the narrative, for they combat evil without much help from others.
Though Dracula contains plenty of sadistic sexual imagery, its eponymous villain is portrayed as evil without much further psychological complexity.
Reconciling herself to an unavoidable evil without much difficulty, Catherine turned her attention to organizing and strengthening a system that she herself had condemned as inhuman.
As the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. observed, "He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it".
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The very fact of pulling off "Boyhood" deserves praise, but the movie's absurd sentimentalization of childhood and adolescence, its vision of a boy and teen without a spark of ferocity, without an evil thought, without energies to tame or impulses to master — without any wildness at heart — could satisfy the old studio system.
Only a small fraction had the moral clarity to recognize its evils without caveat or compromise, and, before the war broke out, very few did anything to directly challenge it.
This strategy may be interpreted as arguing either that there are no real evils in the world (i.e., only apparent evils) or that there are real evils in the world but they are all necessary evils — without which the whole system of nature would not be so perfect (Cp. D, 10.5 7/194; EU, 8.34/101).
Harry can't successfully battle the evil wizards without his friends; Henry couldn't have built Ford without the technical, financial and even social genius of his closest advisors.
Surely one can blame all the evil actors without having to take sides with any.
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