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#640 – DIALOGUE: Does evil disprove God? (with Alex O’Connor, Joe Schmid, and Cameron Bertuzzi)

The Counsel of Trent

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The Problem of Evil, Is It More Valuable Than a World That Doesn't Have That?

Cameron: I don't know that we can actually advance the conversation when you make that kind of move. Because i think there are different intuitions on different goods that are supposedly served by suffering. For example, bravery is maybe a bit of a poor one because it seems intuitively to me that we'd rather have no need for bravery and no bravery in the same way. And then what can we say? We can say whell we think that a world that has those higher order goods and the accompanying evils like we think that's more valuable. But how do you actually progress there? That's thats kind of, i think we may actually run into, like a stale maid.

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