It tries to reduce all evil to equal evil, in effect to confuse the issue in order to write the inconvenient genocide that is the Holocaust out of history as a distinct category.
There are steps that the United States could take to reduce its Evil Empire profile within the country, such as gradually withdrawing from direct combat in Afghanistan, while preserving political stability through regional negotiations that account for, among other things, Pakistan's interests.
While acknowledging that a prostitute or client "who uses a condom in order to diminish the risk posed to another person is intending to reduce the evil connected with his or her immoral activity," the Vatican statement cautioned against describing such a case in terms of the "lesser evil".
And by the end of the play, after you've watched these parents reduced to evil, squabbling children on behalf of their evil, squabbling offspring, you may be tempted to agree.
Attention to the complexities of causation and context in no way reduces the evil of the genocide or the culpability of the perpetrators.
Good and evil reduce, for Locke, to "nothing but Pleasure or Pain, or that which occasions or procures Pleasure and Pain to us" (Essay, 2.28.5).
This latter view holds that all goods and evils reduce to specific kinds of pleasures and pains.
If we reduce that enemy to "evil," we conjure up a shape-shifting demon, a wild-card moral anarchist beyond our comprehension and therefore beyond the reach of any counterstrategies.
Ocean carriers contend that it is a necessary evil to reduce their exposure to volatile bunker price, while shippers argue that this risk should either be considered as a normal commercial venture, or dealt with in a more transparent way.
