“In human government, those who are in authority rightly tolerate certain evils, lest certain goods be lost, or certain evils be incurred… ‘If you do away with harlots, the world will be convulsed with lust.’” So wrote Thomas Aquinas, quoting Augustine of Hippo, in the Summa Theologiae, some 750 years ago. Since the thirteenth century, […] The post How (Not) to Abolish a Vice appeared first on Fairer Disputations.
