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"Combating" here likely means doing evil things in order to combat other evil things. For example, the "Inferno" movie's plot was to release a virus to downsize
by akomtu 6y ago
"Combating" here likely means doing evil things in order to combat other evil things. For example, the "Inferno" movie's plot was to release a virus to downsize the population in order to combat global warming.
- dionidium 6y agoI think even that's too generous. It can also mean misidentifying and mislabeling (or at the very least, overreacting to) the causes of something one thinks is evil. One might decide, for example, that the workers in early 20th century Russia have been unfairly oppressed by the kulaks and then, upon determining therefore that those kulaks meet a standard for "evil," sleep soundly carrying out actions that result in their mass enslavement and starvation (all in the name of fighting oppression).