Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
Excerpt: "When is it right to force someone to do something?
Real evil exists in the world. We recognize it in the selfish and cruel actions of other people, and if we are honest we admit at least the possibility of evil in our own actions. Sometimes we have the power, we think, to stop evildoers. But since we recognize the potential for doing evil ourselves, we worry that our efforts to stop the injustice of others will themselves be unjust. Whether wickedly or unwittingly, our fight against evil might just produce more evil."
Recommended Citation
Smith, Phil, "Quakers and Coercion in a World of Good and Evil (Chapter Eleven in Good and Evil: Quaker Perspectives)" (2007). Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology. 346.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ccs/346
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Good and Evil: Quaker Perspectives in 2007, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Good-and-Evil-Quaker-Perspectives-1st-Edition/Scully-Dandelion/p/book/9780754656210