If you are a necessary evil doesn't that sort of make you good?

Only until something better comes along.

And given the nature of a necessary evil, it shouldn't take much for something to be better.

>>1461515
Define a necessary evil in the context of it taking the form of a human being.

>>1461559
Saddam Hussain's regime was brutal and ethnically cleansed his Kurdish citizens, but at the same time it maintained order, it was secular, it kept Iran checked and didn't allow terrorism to fester in Iraq.

>>1461565
And how was the regime of Hussein a NECESSARY evil in that case? Just because there were subjective pros and cons to his rule, it doesn't imply that it was necessary. What about his rule, if we are using him for an example, was necessary?

>>1461602
Hindsight shows that it's arguable that Saddam was a necessary evil because his stable but brutal order is preferable to a corrupt democracy that has terrorism festering within it like modern Iraq.

>>1461617
Yeah, I'm sure the Kurds will agree with you.

>>1461617
Who can say a brutal regime that performed acts of genocide is objectively better than a corrupt democracy?

What was necessary about it?

>>1461662
Nah but he was better than ISIS

>>1461649
The kurds are 15% of Iraq.

>>1461662
No one can. You can't prove to reverse either.

But one fucking look at Iraq today versus Iraq in 2002 shows how much fucking worse it got.

>what was necessary about it?
The fact it now seems to have been the best possibility.

>>1461515
whenever you choose the lesser of two evils, don’t forget; you’re still choosing evil

>>1461704
Is choosing the lesser evil a bad thing?

>>1461720
fuck knows

>>1461515
>>1461720
Without falling into the Evil/Good meme.

Chemotherapy destroys also healthy cells. But sometimes is necesary to destroy cancer.

>>1461743
That's actually a pretty good comparison

>>1461743
Tear out the cancer.
Take back your soul.

Killing Kurds wasn't necessary in stopping ISIS though