Sentences with phrase «agents do evil»
Not exact matches
If it is understood in a strongly mentalistic way, as consisting exclusively in what the agent has it in mind to do, then the agent can at least try to avoid formal cooperation by excluding from his plans the evil effects of the action he is cooperating with.
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Secondly, I do not believe that «the possible world containing Hitler's actions — i.e., the actual world — contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free moral agents which God was free to actualize.»
More importantly, I do not believe the actual world «contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free agents» God could have actualized; I see no reason to think there is any such world.
One of the most unpalatable lessons of history is that evil is often perpetrated by people who think they are doing good as midwives of progress, agents of natural selection, saviors of Christendom — whatever.
As moral agents we must discern and undo the evil that has been done.
Paranoia — the belief that anyone who does not share their supernatural concept of reality is «evil,» «the devil,» «an agent of Satan».
Since when did the all American CIA execute their own agents like some kind of evil supervillain organisation, seriously are they the CIA or Cobra?
In spite of the potential of a scene like that, where Radcliffe's FBI agent finds some empathy with evil figures, Ragussis's script doesn't cut very deep.
We don't all have time to wait a year for a book to reach the shelf, nor do we all want to wait to get screwed by bad agents, bad marketers, or evil publishing houses.
Back when self - publishing was an evil term and the only real option a writer had if they wanted to consider themselves a «professional» writer was to submit to an agent and / or a traditional publisher, you knew exactly what to do because the publishers told you.
Off and on for years I've been hearing from newer writers that editors were evil, that they didn't want to send their manuscripts to editors to be butchered, that they wanted an agent to help protect their work.