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    Evil is never permanent — Carmelics
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    Evil is never permanent

    Problem of Evil
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    • 1.Evil is the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions
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    • 2.All living beings gradually change to fit into their environment
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    • 1.Some evils are constitutive of conscious existence itself, not contingent mismatches between organism and environment.
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    • 2.Schopenhauer and Buddhist philosophy identify suffering as intrinsic to will and desire, which adaptation cannot eliminate.
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    • 3.If evil is built into the structure of sentient life, no degree of environmental fit removes it permanently.
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    • 1.Geological and cosmological evidence shows environments can change catastrophically faster than organisms can adapt.
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    • 2.Mass extinction events demonstrate that maladaptation can become total and permanent for entire species, not merely temporary.
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    In Social Statics, Spencer asserts that evil is never permanent (59). He reasons to this conclusion from two premises. First, he defines evil as the “non-adaptation of constitution to conditions” (1841, 59). Second, he claims that all living beings gradually change to fit into their environment (59–60). He lists a great number of natural phenomena that supposedly illustrate this law (60). At the point of writing, Spencer was a Lamarckian, but he later maintained essentially this argument as
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