In fact, such countries may have a case. The human rights agenda is no more than an ideological imposition by the West, if the cause of freedom is divorced from the claims of truth. The contention that there is no objective or universal truth has achieved a measure of official status among us by fiat of the Supreme Court. When truth itself is democratized when truth is no more than the will of each individual or a majority of individuals democracy, deprived of the claim to truth, stands naked to its enemies. We cannot always do the good that we would, but we can always refuse to do evil.
Some acts are intrinsically evil, evil per se always and everywhere, without exception.
As examples, the Pope cites homicide, genocide, abortion, slavery, prostitution, and trafficking in women and children. Evil must never be called good, nor good evil. It is never licit to do evil in order to achieve good. John Paul's answer is never. The moral person is prepared to die rather than do evil.