If there is a benevolent and powerful creator, however, it seems quite likely indeed that there should be such things.
Should we consider these "flexible negotiations" a form of benevolent paternalism?
They point out that 'benevolent' censorship (p. 40) raises questions about who controls free speech, how it is controlled, and when it is controlled.
But ethnographic reports indicate that malevolent and predatory deities are as culturally widespread, historically ancient, and socially supreme as benevolent deities.
As we have seen, the former argued for some kind of internal civility - that politeness was ultimately founded on the mind's benevolent disposition.
The benevolent qualities of younger people also featured in the earthquake stories.
Maybe so, but what is intuitively (though not uncontroversially) relevant is the distinction between a piece of benevolent behavior and a piece of malevolent behavior.
The marketplace takes no count of good or benevolent intention.
