"Progress is not made by crushing some swarm of malevolent foes, but by finding balance between competing truths" https://nyti.ms/2uXsFJB
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I consider "malevolent" to refer to the *threat* posed by a person or a group more than to their past actions. Marching Nazis = real threat.
"malevolent" invokes "evil" to me, and privileges condemnation over practical threat analysis. It's not a label that promotes understanding