PHIL 10100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Richard Swinburne, Opata Language, Natural Evil
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Because free will is a good, a wholly good being may wish for others to have free will. But it is impossible to give free will and also stop them from using the free will to create evil. So a wholly good being might not eliminate evil which it was within its power to eliminate, when doing so would be an infringement on the free will of the creature causing the evil. No evil at all is redeemed by free will- mackie thinks that the free will defense. God would be like the dentist because he could have given us all the good of free will without any of the corresponding evil. If he could have done that that"s obviously a better option. Ex) choosing between 2 jelly: richard swinburne missing something. The free will we have demands a responsibility for each other but we can harm beans.
