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    If some evils are logically necessary for greater goods, ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Premise (4)—that if God is morally perfect, then God has the desire to eliminate all evil—is questionable.

    If some evils are logically necessary for greater goods, a morally perfect God would not necessarily desire to eliminate all evil.

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    It seems possible, then, that there might be evils that are logically necessary for goods that outweigh them, and this possibility provides a reason, accordingly, for questioning one of the premises in the argument set out earlier—namely, premise (4), where it is claimed that if God is morally perfect, then God has the desire to eliminate all evil.

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