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    It is not the case that God would not institute an unjust system

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Observable natural systems include suffering, predation, disease, and death affecting the innocent—features hard to characterize as just.
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    • 2.What counts as 'just' may be unknowable to humans, so we cannot confidently assess whether God's systems are just or unjust.
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    • 3.Even if God exists and is powerful, nothing logically requires divine benevolence or that justice guides God's choices or institutions.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Perfect beings cannot perform unjust acts, as injustice contradicts the very definition of perfection or moral completeness.
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    • 2.If God created a fundamentally unjust system, God would be responsible for the suffering it causes, contradicting divine benevolence.
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    • 3.Any system instituted by an all-knowing being would reflect that being's values; an unjust system would indicate unjust values.
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