the lesser of two evils.

you know when you hear some cool idea or have some medium thought or something, but leave it a couple of days or weeks before writing it down and when you do it comes out weak and un-inspired? yer. this is one of those times.

was totally awesome last week or so. but you know how things are. anyway.

ill record it, so maby some other time or some other person will progress the thought some. (dont let that sound like it was mine btw, im sure i read this somewhere)

say you have a situation when you can do either one of two bad things. the typical lesser of two evils position you would think. what we need to do is apply the half full glass trick. to see this as which would be the greater of two goods. im not saying that these alternatives may have any good in themselves, but relatively, there is a greater good. ie; the lesser evil.

the cool part is that this way it becomes morally right to choose the greater good..

eg: you must either protect human life and lie or hand over the innocent life to be killed. So it is not the lesser of two evils but the greater of two goods, and in this instance morally obligatory.

for a nice example think of rahab and the spies(joshua2:9).

ahh, found where i was reading about this too.