Originally posted by: Jagdlieter
Your argument may be that a lesser evil can be justified by a greater good, but isn't NO evil the greatest good of all?
In a perfect society, of course it is.Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
As we look at history, the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima remains justified, as the massive death was still paltry compared to the amount of death that would have been caused by a protracted invasion of Japan. Sometimes violence is supported by bean counting. Doesn't mean we will rest easy with the thought, and it doesn't mean the afterlife will be any kinder to us for making those kinds of decisions, but this is perhaps the ultimate example that answers the question.
As we look at history, the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima remains justified, as the massive death was still paltry compared to the amount of death that would have been caused by a protracted invasion of Japan. Sometimes violence is supported by bean counting. Doesn't mean we will rest easy with the thought, and it doesn't mean the afterlife will be any kinder to us for making those kinds of decisions, but this is perhaps the ultimate example that answers the question.
Your argument may be that a lesser evil can be justified by a greater good, but isn't NO evil the greatest good of all?
However, we do not live in a perfect society. There will always be evil in our world.
Evil would win out if it were not for the good choosing to "do evil things" to eliminate them.
You know, this makes me think of EP3. Anakin went to the DS (evil) because he wanted to eliminate evil (CIS) and protect good (Padme). His problem was that he could not return from it until ROTJ.