Cure-alls and Remedies
The standard response to the problem of evil is that evil is the result of human willing: thus the Holocaust or American racism cannot be laid at the feet of an omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly benevolent God. But I think this seriously ignores the problem of natural evil.
Bryan Caplan echoes my own pragmatic/consequentialist arguments for pacifism : P1: The immediate costs of war are clearly awful. P2: The long-run benefits of war are highly uncertain. P3: For a war to be morally justified, its long-run benefits have to be substantially larger than its short-run costs. C: [B]efore you kill innocent people, you should be reasonably sure…
Mumbai Under Attack . We know so little about what is happening there that these photographs are almost better than the print journalism. Beware: many of the photographs are difficult to see. [caption id=”” align=”aligncenter” width=”495″ caption=”A resident takes cover for possible return fire as National Security Guard commandoes fire at suspected militants holed up…