> Susan Hogarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/7/07, Ken Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about the draft: > > > > ... Although it > > is undeniably evil, it is sometimes necessary. ... > > How can evil ever be necessary? What do you mean when you use the word > 'evil'?
On 3/7/07, K B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Susan: > > Thanks for actually thinking, unlike most Americans! I don't share your opinion that most people don't think. > I will quote my uncle, who went down with the aircraft carrier Lipscomb Bay > at the age of 17. He wrote, shortly before his death, "God must give us a > special dispensation for the terrible things that we must do." This is a bizarre sort of theology which believes that you get some special pass to conduct evil in the name of some greater good. But that sort of bastardized Christianity is always popping up, I guess. Witness the Inquisition. Witness the Crusades. Witness the witch trials. And, yes, the same awful 'religion of necessary evil' exist in other religions. > Those who have been there, and a few other thinking people, will understand > what those words mean and imply. Well, I must not qualify. Is this some sort of understanding which can be conveyed by words, or do you have to understand why evil might be necessary through some flash of intuition? Also: you didn't answer my question: what do you mean by 'evil'? -- Susan Hogarth http://www.colliething.com
