Can anybody fathom the magnitude and depth of harm galamsey has cost the Republic of Ghana in terms of human resource abuses, land degradation,
evil consequences on farming, water pollution and evil climate change (s).
What we fail to do if we could not do it, or do
with evil consequences if we could not foresee or avoid them, may be tragic loss but it is not sin.
It is corporate social sin, by great groups of persons against great groups of persons, that causes the most
serious evil consequences and is hardest to reckon with.
Buddhists do not deny that evil deeds have
evil consequences, but these are not imposed externally.
In more recent times, as belief in the greatness of their nations has become the central motive for so many people, one can cite innumerable instances of
the evil consequences of such beliefs.
The Evil consequences and the end result of that corruption that are so well known, caused entire civilizations to fall and fail.
Because they were concerned with their own impotence in good works and with the harm they were doing to others, they were not less altruistic than those who were concerned only with doing good, and inattentive to
the evil consequences of many good works.
The census (30:11 - 16), prescribed here for the purpose of fixing a sanctuary tax, but always undertaken with some apprehension of incurring God's anger (hence, «a ransom» to avoid
any evil consequences; vs. 12, see II Sam.
He has proven himself able to resist the temptations that lead to sin and
its evil consequences: pride in human self - sufficiency, idolatry, doubt of God's promises.
Consider the huge cost to the economy now for reparation work that must be done following
the evil consequences of illegal mining (galamsey) the economy tolerated for bad administration....
As the contributors to Haldane's Daedalus Revisited make clear, Haldane could foresee
the evil consequences of implementing scientific advances without adapting our moral systems accordingly.
Meanwhile, the British and French imperial War plans, embodied in the (secret) Sykes - Picot treaty and the contradictory assurances offered to Jews and Arabs in the Balfour declaration and the McMahon - Hussein correspondence [^ 1], continue to work
their evil consequences long after all the original participants have gone to their graves.