Consciption and Evil Re: They gave their lives....

[John D. Giorgis]

At 11:25 PM 5/30/01 +0100 Robert Shaw wrote:
>Conscription in the face of threatened war is an acceptable evil.

Evil?   But how can evil beget good?    

To me, the term evil inherently implies an "absolute bad."   Since
conscription is not absolutely bad, I don't think that it can properly be
characterized as an "evil."

JDG
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