You can make evil serve the great good. Consider a certain percentage of people traveling across Mexico and other Countries to come here will die or be human trafficked or encounter other terrible outcomes. If a couple hundred or thousand people get get massacred by cartels spectacularly enough it will discourage millions from making the journey and stay home and that will ultimately save more lives than it costs. I call that immoral math.

Similarly if we tested the entire world for HIV in 1985 and tossed everyone with it into an isolation camp or a furnace we might have killed half a million people and violated the rights of the whole planet, but we would have saved about 35 million from the grave. Evil? Sure, but in the final reckoning way less evil than what did happen that has killed 35 million and counting.

You can make evil serve the great good. Consider a certain percentage of people traveling across Mexico and other Countries to come here will die or be human trafficked or encounter other terrible outcomes. If a couple hundred or thousand people get get massacred by cartels spectacularly enough it will discourage millions from making the journey and stay home and that will ultimately save more lives than it costs. I call that immoral math.

Similarly if we tested the entire world for HIV in 1985 and tossed everyone with it into an isolation camp or a furnace we might have committed crimes against humanity for half a million people, but we would have saved about 35 million from the grave. Evil? Sure, but way less evil than what did transpire.