If the elimination of evil would prevent a greater good constitutive of human perfection, an omnibenevolent God has positive reason to permit it, dissolving the alleged contradiction.
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greater good(in ethics and arguments about justifying suffering)
A benefit or positive outcome that is more important or valuable than the harm or sacrifice needed to achieve it.
the problem of evil(Contemporary philosophical terminology)
The family of issues raised by the question of why pain, moral wickedness, and varieties of imperfection exist if a perfectly good and all-powerful God alone created everything in the universe.
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.