After all, if tobacco smoking is held to be universally bad, not to do it may only be accorded common sense rather than a virtue.
This cacophony of clashing, often factually dubious viewpoints is usually held to be a bad thing, and in many ways it is.
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by 'our' side..
Only some egalitarians hold inequality to be bad per se.
"Being bad and doing something illegal hold very little interest for me," he said, "but being tactical and creative hold a great deal.' Artists like to be bad, and although museums are sometimes their targets, they can also serve as shields when artists become controversial.
If normal patterns held, that would be bad news for the investment firms that gambled on Puerto Rico's housing market.
Retributive justice holds that it would be bad to punish a wrongdoer more than she deserves, where what she deserves must be in some way proportional to the gravity of her crime.
There needs to be more awareness among both states and businesses about the obligations contained within the human rights to water and sanitation, and how states can be held to account for bad practice.
Nor does fratire hold that feminism is bad, or that men are "superior" to women in some unspecified way.
One who holds that evil attitudes can be bad in themselves, apart from their consequences, would want to say more than this.
