Episode #038 ... Leibniz pt. 2 - The Best of All Possible Worlds
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The Importance of Drinking When You're Drunk
In a perfect world, god wouldn't ever allow anybody to be thirsty. But this world actually is the best of all possible worlds because when you drink the water, you derive more goodness from that drinking experience than you would if something like thirst never existed in the first place. So it's not that god doesn't see this evil happening. Maybe leimnit says, statistically speaking, if you could play out every possible universe like god can, maybe god realized that by allowing thirst to exist, and therefore allowing to exist the augmented experience of drinking when you're thirsty, the universe is over all, a better universe for it.
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