Without evil there can't be good. You can choose which, and people are inherently evil. Being good takes effort.
Without evil there can't be good. You can choose which, and people are inherently evil.
I can't adequately express how much I disagree with this statement, because it ignores the obvious third option.
Any 'God' that created Good must surely have also created, or at least allowed to exist, Evil as well, if for not other purpose than to contrast the Good he created.
But surely he had another option, a much more boring but benevolent one, which would have been to create Nothing at all, so we wouldn't have to suffer through the act of creation, wouldn't have to trouble our imperfect minds over silly questions of Good and Evil.
Any creator who allows for Good and Evil, and the vile burden of Free Will, is certainly a bored creator who is not in it for the betterment of ourselves, but wants to watch us and our imperfections interacting together as a form of despicable entertainment.
I've had this exact train of thought in my head for years. The more you try to rationalize it, the less it makes sense.
Whatever created this, I don't know their motive. I just know I can do good by people, or I can fuck them over. The correct choice is obvious, given you don't believe in an afterlife. This life is the only one that matters, right?
given you don't believe in an afterlife.
I absolutely did not say that.
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