Bad guys are deterred by force, the threat of force, or by their cold calculation that the costs of evil behavior are not worth the risk.

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But like love and good, evil is an omnipresent force imposing itself on the rest of society like an untreatable cancer.

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But the Royal Society of Chemistry, which promotes the work of chemical sciences, says that it also meant that millions of people who saw the film saw nuclear technology being presented as a "barely-controllable force for evil".

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