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    It is not the case that Some necessary evils may be tolerated without being morally approved or endorsed by gospel teaching

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    • 1.Institutional tolerance of evil, especially by religious authority, functions as tacit moral endorsement in the eyes of those subject to that authority.
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    • 2.Erasmus's distinction between tolerance and approval collapses when the tolerating agent has a prophetic obligation to actively oppose evil, as Aquinas held of religious leaders.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Kant's categorical imperative demands that moral agents never treat persons as mere means, making systemic tolerance of evils that instrumentalize persons impermissible regardless of consequentialist benefits.
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    • 2.A 'necessary evil' framing presupposes a consequentialist calculus that gospel ethics, rooted in deontological commands, does not permit as a justificatory framework.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Tolerating a lesser evil can prevent a greater evil
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    • 2.Tolerance of an evil is distinct from approval or endorsement of that evil
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