Sentences with phrase «orders as a necessary evil»

The home secretary, Theresa May, was thought to have recently reluctantly swung behind the retention of control orders as a necessary evil despite repeated interventions by Nick Clegg, whose Lib Dem manifesto clearly called for them to be scrapped.

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Even if evil and suffering is a teaching tool, an all good God would only allow as much evil or suffering as is absolutely necessary, in order to achieve a greater purpose.

Thus the traditional conception of deity, which we have received from our past, puts its main stress on divine absoluteness or aseity; on divine causative agency as the explanation of everything that occurs whether by direct divine willing or by indirect divine permission with respect to evil done in the world; on divine self - containedness and hence lack of necessary relationship with anything else; on divine impassability, which makes any suffering impossible for God; and on divine moral perfection, with the giving of laws in accordance with which everything should be ordered.

We can appreciate the Christian absolutist who seeks to stand wholly against involvement in the evil of society; yet as he does so he must realize that those who are working for relative gains within the social order are doing a necessary work in the service of God.

Nonetheless, although novelty is a necessary condition to achieve value, it can also produce evil should it introduce a chaos that can not be creatively formed into a higher order, for as Whitehead did clearly state: «The novelty may promote or destroy order; it may be good or bad» (PR 284).

The issue, in sum, is not whether an omnipotent deity's deception of its self - conscious creatures would be morally problematic but only whether such deception, if necessary in order to have a world with all the positive values of the present one but without its horrendous evils, would be justified as the lesser of evils.

The report on this subject frankly acknowledged that «the missionary enterprise, coming as it does out of an economic order dominated almost entirely by the profit motive,» has not been «so sensitive to those aspects of the Christian message as would have been necessary sensibly to mitigate the evils which advancing industrialization has brought in its train,» and then proceeded to scrutinize mercilessly the exploitation of backward peoples as the result of the economic penetration of Africa and Asia by the West.

An all good God would only allow as much evil or suffering as is absolutely necessary, in order to achieve a greater purpose.

That's not to say that there isn't a noticeable grind, though, which I personally feel dilutes the elements of the Elder Scrolls series that have been brought successfully over to this new model; I understand that it's a necessary evil as certain mechanics and the like much be changed in order to accommodate the addition of the MMORPG components of the game but these new features often felt like an intrusion upon the established formula rather than complementing it.

Most folks with post secondary educations tend to value education, and not view it as a necessary evil, something that has to be gotten over with as quickly as possible in order to get a licence.