"First Class" is not blind to societal evils, so much as it works to hold evil at an ocean's length.
The assessment concluded that the leadership conference had hosted speakers who "often contradict or ignore" church teaching; had never revoked a statement from 1977 that questioned the male-only priesthood, and focused their efforts on serving the poor and disenfranchised, while remaining virtually silent on issues the church considers great societal evils: abortion and same-sex marriage.
Gibney (Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Taxi to the Dark Side) has an uncanny ability to show us something that looks fairly wholesome and ordinary like a ballgame, and then, like Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," show us the dark undercurrent of societal evils that run beneath it.
As the dangers of tobacco — and the scandalous behavior of tobacco companies in concealing those dangers — became impossible to ignore, smoking took on a new identity: societal evil.
Rousseau thus externalizes the origins of societal evil and alienation from the original nature of man.
Over time, the phenomena could potentially lead the country into seeing those it disagrees with as caricatures of societal evil, rather than as people who come at the same problems from different perspectives.
The result is a gruesome nightmare of a thing, a calculatedly sickening image of power, wielded by an association that functions as a societal police force, thwarting evil through psychological intimidation.
Our evil choices cause societal harm and so there HAS to be a place to talk about things which promote and protect and flourishing of society.
Grossman explained that from Dr. Impossible's point of view, he is not inherently evil but rejects societal norms: "it's a matter of integrity — he's sticking to his principles, doing science his own way, pursuing his goals — even if it means the entire world is against him, even if he looks ridiculous in his costume, even if he knows he's going to lose.
This paradigm has been used to describe societal reactions to child abuse, where abusers are construed as evil and other, who can be removed from society, 12 thus eliminating abuse.
In March of that year, Scott Lively, Caleb Lee Brundidge, and Don Schmierer, outspoken pastors who contended that same-sex attraction is curable and that the "gay movement" is evil, traveled to Kampala to lead a three-day conference on societal threats posed by "the gay agenda".
