Here is a poem about one of my longstanding pet peeves, the moral laziness of “necessary” evil. Evil happens. Evil is unavoidable. Still, if evil is an ethical choice made by moral agents, it cannot be necessary. None the less, “necessary” evil is immensely popular, even endemic, and hugely profitable, at least in sum cents. We can do better.
The Devil Made Me – Due It
Feel free
Too due evil
Just
Make sure
It’s “necessary” evil
And when giving
The heir quotes
Make
Sure they know
It only comes in won color
Blood red
