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

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Is There a World Without Those Goods?

I think God can make a world where only free creatures choose things, but it would also lack certain goods. And so maybe the case God has reasons for allowing certain good. You can't have them without a concomitant evil, like compassion or courage. To me, something like bravery is only good insofar as it overcomes some form of suffering or evil. It doesn't just seem to me to be like a good thing intrinsically. Without the fear and suffering, it wouldn't be intrinsically good. I don't know that we can actually advance the conversation when you make that move.

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