"Least Bad" is often quite good. When comparing governments, one can't use a vacuum. It's not A vs. hypothetical B. For example, fighting WW2 "completely ethi

"Least Bad" is often quite good. When comparing governments, one can't use a vacuum. It's not A vs. hypothetical B. For example, fighting WW2 "completely ethically" (such as waiting for absolute precision bombing, absolutely zero civilian casualties, etc.) would have lost the war. Yet, I'm happy that we didn't. Because the alternative would have been much worse.