November 9, 2025

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), English Catholic scholar, The Judgment of the Nations (1942), Jay p.110

The operative word is ‘all’. Surely some means are permitted in the fight against evil? What might those means be, in your view? Which might best be proscribed, forbidden?

A perennial criticism of high-minded democracies is that they claim to respect human rights—except when the nation is under threat. Witness what came in the wake of 9/11 in the U.S.A.