Jesting apart, I think Stuart
Jesting apart, I think Stuart is making the philosophical point that if there is a choice only of two evils it’s logical to choose the lesser. But the real question is whether or not there is just a choice of two evils.Here’s an extract from wikipedia on the term:
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An early example of the lesser of two evils principle in politics was the slogan “Better the turban than the mitre”, used by Orthodox Christians in the Balkans during the rise of the Ottoman Empire. Conquest by Western Roman Catholic powers would likely mean forcible conversion to the Catholic faith, while conquest by the Muslim Ottoman Empire would mean second-class citizenship but would at least allow Orthodox Christians to retain their current religion. In a similar manner, the Protestant Dutch resistance against Spanish rule in the 16th century used the slogan Liever Turks dan Paaps (better a Turk than a Papist).
The reference at the end of the wikipedia article to the 2002 French presidential election which opposed the conservative Jacques Chirac to Le Pen of the National Front reminds me that I actually saw a Trotskyist march in Lille at the time with the banner: “Cholera or the Plague: Vote for Cholera”. Unfortunately I didn’t have a camera with me.Incidentally, which is the lesser evil: the Roman Catholic Church or the Greek Orthodox Church?