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What do you think about the concept of lesser evil? (i.e. when faced with selecting from two immoral options, the less immoral one should be chosen.) (thelemmy.club)

submitted 4 days ago by Bidah@thelemmy.club to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago

It's rarely true.

You can aim to do something good, with a risk of something bad happening (e.g. as another poster said, rolling the dice on surgery to alleviate suffering at the risk of the patient dying)

...or you can do evil.

The "lesser of two evils" is just used as justification for something that can't be morally justified otherwise.