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#21 Trent Horn, Cameron Bertuzzi & Joe Schmid - The Problem of Evil

Within Reason

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Is There a Duty to Bring About Bravery?

I think many people would say they're willing to tolerate some evil, but not others. But then I worry maybe their intuitions are off even in that, given how the entire system is set up in that regard. If God has a duty to bring about free will, it would still function as a Theodicy. Some of them are conjoined to evils. Is it really better to never have them at all? That maybe Joe's right. Maybe when it comes to existence of God, some people find a principle solution reason plausible others don't. It aims for a particular kind of end informed by goodness, but it's not strict kind of consequentialism.

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