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Why are we obligated to never sanction evil?

So that evil doesn’t feel emboldened. So that good has a chance over evil. It’s in the essay you quoted.

And why is that so important we must be coercive to do it?

We don’t.

And why do we care what evil-doers think?

See 1).


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