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    Eliminating all evil would require either eliminating fre... — Carmelics
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    Supports→It is not true that a perfectly good being would want to eliminate all evils.

    Eliminating all evil would require either eliminating free creatures or constantly overriding their choices, both of which destroy the good of authentic moral agency.

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    • 1.Moral agency requires the real possibility of choosing otherwise; predetermined good choices are not genuinely chosen.
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    • 2.A world where agents cannot fail morally lacks the conditions for genuine virtue, courage, or moral growth through struggle.
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    • 3.A creator constantly intervening to prevent harmful choices treats agents as tools rather than as ends in themselves.
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    • 1.The claim conflates eliminating evil with eliminating the *capacity* for evil; we could create agents inclined toward good without coercion.
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    • 2.An omnipotent being could design agents whose free choices reliably produce good outcomes—compatibilism suggests freedom and determination coexist.
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    • 3.The claim assumes authentic agency requires the possibility of serious harm to others; but constraints on harming innocents needn't undermine moral agency.
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