It's kind of like overthrowing a corrupt decadent monarchy for a benevolent dictatorship.
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People need to stop looking to the Supreme Court as some benevolent trump card.
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I assume he's referring to the most obvious potential contradiction here, that God is all-benevolent, yet he willingly created the angel that would become who we now know as Satan, who is responsible for the original sin in the Garden of Eden, and so by default pretty much all sin and suffering in the world.
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It's dangerous to trust someone in that kind of position, and the intent behind Kuvira's actions were too ambiguous to be deemed benevolent.
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can some benevolent redditor join me with the gilding?
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Sort of like when the United States went into Iraq the first time.However, being the loving benevolent federation, they kept a mostly defensive posture, or likely never truly went on the offence until the close of the war.
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Anything on this glorious sub will always be good, under the benevolent hands of our ~~facsist~~ kind mods!
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They then go around extorting their neighbors to pay for their benevolent service.
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They then continue to extort you for their benevolent service.
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I for one welcome our benevolent Pokedex overlord...
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You actually think that your government is a benevolent actor in the world and almost everyone else is a "bad guy".
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It isn't judgemental at-all - quite the opposite - and shows God to be benevolent in a way which common preaching does not even approach.
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It portends well that we are, slowly, becoming a more kinder, benevolent and caring country than at any other time in our history.
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How is this example different to the two examples of benevolent sexism?
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And 95% of the time, they're the sweetest creatures in the world, but that 5% makes you question how a benevolent God could create such a fearsome evil.
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I was bestowed this title by the benevolent /r/casualiama mods.
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It's interesting to note in the early church they all referred to each other as 'brother and sister in Christ' and that's an important phrasing, being 'in' Christ signifies they're within his 'light' or 'sphere' that is to say if you drew a plot of possible types of person they were a person trying that's christlike, inspired by and subservient to the ideals and opinions of christ, christ the redeemer, christ the benevolent, christ the holy.
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If you are feeling especially benevolent, you could give her the number for AAA or a local garage that could help her.
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The North were not this noble and benevolent military force whose goal was to free slaves in the South like you imagine.
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Do we believe various claims that this god loves us and is all-benevolent?
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Back in my day people made all kinds of movies insulting our Benevolent Dictator, Kim Jong Un
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I personally find a lot of joy in treating other people like my brothers and sisters because I believe this benevolent spirit is what will be able to fix the problems we create for ourselves and bring lasting peace to people.
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Well, considering the context, and that the Patrolman's Benevolent Association said to the NYPD to only make arrests where there is no danger to themselves, as well as that what you posted is poorly sourced and literally the only reference I can find (nothing from official channels), I definitely do not see how you can think it is the Mayor putting NYPD in danger.
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"It's not female privilege, it's just benevolent sexism!"
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When someone has a strong belief system that centres around a benevolent (good) god, they seem to want to believe god is in control and "testing them", rather than believing life is all about luck and circumstance.
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This is exactly what I was thinking about why having a dictator (well an evil dictator that is, some may be benevolent) is a lot worse than being looted and raped by criminals.
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Can't we just have a future with a largely benevolent leadership, who don't get their kicks experimenting on little girls, with holding medicine from mining colonies or just generally subjugating half the human population for no readily discernible reason.
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That was the IE6 situation, except it stopped being a particularly benevolent dictator shortly after launching!
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House is a dictator yes, but he is a (relatively) benevolent one, and he is not dying any time soon.
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Sometimes I am a benevolent dictator, sometimes I am firm and unyielding, sometimes I bend in the wind as I see the situation dictates...but my power is never given away.
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If your chief medical dwarf has any note in his/her description about not going out of the way to help others, replace the dorf with someone more benevolent.
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If the god of the bible is all-powerful and benevolent, then why doesn't he just solve all our problems for us?
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Since there's pain and suffering in the world, that must mean that either god is not all-powerful or he's not truly benevolent.
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Jones is remarkably duplicitous and Cormier is described thusly: There's a consensus that the Olympian is a "benevolent, beautiful man."
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It's intellectually dishonest and unfair to blame the British monarch who was the most benevolent ever to the Irish for the difficulties of the aid effort or for a famine that was centuries in the making.
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I know there is no benevolent omnipotent being because innocent suffering exists.
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The so called 'sharing' economy as brought to us by the benevolent techno-libertarians.
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Loses himself when he tries the whole benevolent face gick that a lot of wrestlers seem to adopt a while after ditching their heel gimmicks.
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Just like Isaac and Abraham, without the benevolent god coming in to stop the killing
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I tried to be a benevolent god at first.
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I was never meant to be a benevolent god, I was born to be a wrathful god.
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I've also noticed far fewer bills from anyone since you became high lord commander xD this rather makes democracy look like a bad thing compared to a benevolent dictator.
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Canada will grieve the loss of USA, but will move on and be a benevolent superpower in the new world, post USA breakup.
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So when an organization advocates for a payment to only women because they believe women need greater help in a specific area, is it benevolent sexism?
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The problem is ultimately that the concept of vanguard parties and a dictatorship of the proletariat assumes that it is possible to remain a benevolent dictatorship when you have absolute power.
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That enables benevolent corporations like Comcast, to come in and provide the service that we need at Blast!
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The classical Stoics explained this by asserting that Nature, which provided these instincts, was benevolent and wanted each species to survive, but modern notions of evolution would seem to provide at least as convincing an explanation, if not more so.
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