For other uses, see Necessary evil (disambiguation).
A necessary evil is an evil that someone believes must be done or accepted because it is necessary to achieve a better outcome—especially because possible alternative courses of action or inaction are expected to be worse. It is the "lesser evil" in the lesser of two evils principle, which maintains that given two bad choices, the one that is least bad is the better choice.
A necessaryevil is an evil that someone believes must be done or accepted because it is necessary to achieve a better outcome—especially because possible...
Look up necessaryevil in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. NecessaryEvil may refer to: Necessaryevil, an evil that must be allowed for a greater good...
The NecessaryEvil is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Ben Lyon, Viola Dana, and Frank Mayo. The film's...
political arrangements. The well-known maxim that "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" is widely attributed to Burke...
religion, and psychology, "good and evil" is a common dichotomy. In religions with Manichaean and Abrahamic influence, evil is perceived as the dualistic antagonistic...
organization. While Michael does delete the information after obtaining the necessary virus, he tries to find some leverage of his own. The team manages to...
in danger after she finds out the truth about her new love. 7 7 "A NecessaryEvil" Winrich Kolbe Josef Anderson April 12, 1988 (1988-04-12) 7803 16.5/26...
2006, Harry started work in New York City on her fifth solo album, NecessaryEvil (released in 2007). Working with production duo Super Buddha (who produced...
of evil must be based on the knowledge that: "If something is really evil, it can't be necessary, and if it is really necessary, it can't be evil".: 186 ...
inclined toward evil acts.: 2 Luke Russell argues that both evil actions and evil feelings are necessary to identify a person as evil, while Daniel Haybron...
at number 13 on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart, and the single "NecessaryEvil" reached number 52 on the Canadian Hot 100. Little Secret - Nikki Yanofsky...
Malcolm SG-1 Michael Shanks, John Schwab April 2008 (2008-04) 2 "A NecessaryEvil" Sharon Gosling Sharon Gosling SGA Torri Higginson, Timothy Watson May 2008 (2008-05)...
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carrying instrumentation, and a then-nameless aircraft later called NecessaryEvil, commanded by Captain George Marquardt, to take photographs. The director...
Cotton said of slavery, "As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessaryevil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as...
lawmakers were understood to have intended." Wills, Garry (1999). A NecessaryEvil: A history of American distrust of government. Simon and Schuster. pp...
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