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    It is not the case that A morally perfect being with full knowledge and unlimited power would have compelling reason to prevent any evil whose prevention does not undermine a necessary outweighing good.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

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    • 1.Free will with meaningful moral agency may require the ability to cause real harm—a good that justifies some evil.
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    • 2.We lack certainty about which apparent evils actually undermine greater goods we cannot fully comprehend.
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    • 3.A being's reasons need not match our understanding of reasons for the being to act rationally and justifiably.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.A morally perfect being has no defects or limitations in moral motivation or ability to act on moral reasons.
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    • 2.Preventing gratuitous suffering is a basic moral good that requires no justifying trade-off with other goods.
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    • 3.If a being can prevent harm without cost to anything valuable, failing to do so is a moral failure.
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