Therefore, reproduction was viewed by them as a moral evil to be avoided as it continued the chain of reincarnation and suffering in the material world.
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Writing about the moral evils of London s rookeries in the 1880s, Andrew Mearns ( who was widely read by the Scottish middle classes ) observed:
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It is a sin or moral evil by itself, even in irresponsible children, and that outside of all relation to a will, be it original or personal.
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In the letter, the archbishop stated that while abortion was a " moral evil, " in a democracy its opponents must use political means to combat it.
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He added, " It is, however, one of those moral evils, from which it is impossible for us to escape, without the introduction of evils infinitely greater.
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James Buchanan, who preceded Lincoln as president, said 31 years before he took office that slavery was " a great political and a great moral evil ."
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Now his focus is on painting his popular rival, Democratic Gov . Mel Carnahan, as the personification of those moral evils he railed against as a presidential candidate.
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He attacked it mainly on the grounds of the moral evils that must flow from any system of determinism, and attempted to vindicate the freedom of the will.
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As it turned out, sadly enough, some of the free creatures God created went wrong in the exercise of their freedom; this is the source of moral evil.
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Like nearly every other defender of slavery before 1840, Harper nominally conceded that slavery, at an abstract level, did constitute a sort of ( necessary ) moral evil.
