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    If God's permission of suicide and murder is justified by... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A loving and omnipotent God would not necessarily prevent every suicide and every murder.

    If God's permission of suicide and murder is justified by future reparability, then no act of harm can count as genuinely irreparable, which trivializes the moral weight of evil and undermines theodicy's explanatory project.

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    Trivializes(what the explanation wrongly does to prophecy)
    To make something seem less important, less special, or less meaningful than it really is.
    irreparable(as used in ethics and the argument about harm)
    Something that cannot be fixed, undone, or made right again.
    justified(Epistemological discussion of Socratic wisdom in The Apology)
    Having beliefs formed with adequate evidence or through reliable belief-forming processes, distinct from the ability to demonstrate one's justification to an interrogator.
    moral weight(as used in ethics)
    How serious or significant a wrong action is; how much it matters ethically.
    reparability(as used in discussions of moral harm)

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    The quality of being able to be fixed, restored, or compensated for; the opposite of irreparable.
    theodicy(Central concern of Plutarch's era)
    The philosophical problem of reconciling the existence of evil and unpunished wrongdoing with the existence and goodness of divine providence.

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