0 used to say that a particular action or situation would be even more successful:
If you can go there this afternoon, so much the better.
If the quotation happened to be from a judicial opinion, so much the better.
And if the language is occasionally combative, so much the better.
If they share similar values (regarding arts, culture, language, religion, and so on), so much the better.
If we could live in a place where the interests of our environment can be harmonized with our interests, so much the better.
If these happened to be juxtaposed with an equinox, eclipse, or planetary conjunction, so much the better.
If a general jurisprudence can contribute to this, then so much the better.
My answer is so much the better if the whole country were in a blaze.
If there was ingrained hatred of the countryside by the town, so much the better.
