What are things in your life you consider tolerating since it's a lesser evil and what is that great evil?

I nearly always think voting is a matter of choosing the lesser evil.

The evils of the media are less than the price of not having a free media.

Currently going through a long and difficult surgical process; the greater evil is the disease it cured.

In general, spending time in hospitals is sucky but way better than not getting treatment at all.

My mother-in-law’s passive-aggressive behavior. Greater evil is family drama.

Have to agree with @bobbinhood about voting.

Election 2004 . . . and DEFINITELY election 2000.

I tolerate my low pay because I work somewhere with excellent working conditions and great stability.

I tolerate economically inept politicians because I don’t want our nation to pass anti-gay, pro-life, pro-Big Business laws.

I tolerate paying >$4/gallon for gas because I have to get to work somehow, and I am not walking 23 miles.

I tolerate my wife’s occasional mood swings because she is awesome.

@jerv I love the last one.

It was working for two people at different times that sorely lacked good management skills. In both instances, the job was good overall, so I put up with it until a better opportunity came along. At that point in my career, having a job, albeit an unhappy one, was the lesser evil as compared to not working at all.

Both managers were eventually fired; one after I left and one while I was still there. Occasionally, I look for their status on the internet. In my heart, I believe that they had the right intentions and didn’t realize the damage that they were doing to not only the business, but to employees’ lives. I hope that they both landed on their feet.

The killing of dictators.