News reports are describing this as a "threat," which, according to Merriam-Webster, is "an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage".
One ought not to inflict evil or harm.
For example, the eminent philosopher William Frankena treats the principle of beneficence as being divisible in four parts: a - One ought not inflict evil or harm; b - One ought to prevent evil or harm; c - One ought to remove evil or harm; d - One ought to do or promote the good [ 19].
There is no greatest good for human beings, but there is, he thinks, a universally agreed-upon greatest evil, "sudden and violent death". 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.
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.
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.
An exhaustive survey is not possible here, but among the most important are theodicies that appeal, first, to the value of acquiring desirable traits of character in the face of suffering; secondly, to the value of libertarian free will; thirdly, to the value of the freedom to inflict horrendous evils upon others; and fourthly, to the value of a world that is governed by natural laws.
I tell him that I couldn't imagine him working for the woman who inflicted the evil of the Body on womankind in the 1980s (who will ever forgive or forget those poppers in the crotch?) and rest my case.
"She inflicted tremendous evil on my son, [and] he didn't deserve it," Botham Jean's mother, Allison Jean, said at a news conference Friday.
Familiar terms such as acknowledgement, repentance, contrition, atonement and reconciliation may seem to forge a well-cleared path towards forgiveness, but in case after case the depth and magnitude of the pain inflicted and evil endured serve to severely complicate the question of forgiveness.
In 1868, a court stated, "We will not inflict the greater evil of raising the curtain upon domestic privacy, to punish the lesser evil of trifling violence".
