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    Supports→The probability that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect person must be very low indeed.

    Of the billions of people and sentient non-persons who have existed, the proportion who have never suffered in ways such that the known wrongmaking properties of allowing such suffering outweighed the known rightmaking properties must be small.

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    moral permissibility / allowing suffering(questioning whether it's ever right to permit pain or hardship)
    Whether something is acceptable or defensible from an ethical standpoint; in this case, whether it's okay to let suffering happen.
    outweighed(comparing whether good reasons override bad reasons for an action)
    When one thing is more important or significant than another; when the reasons on one side are stronger than reasons on the other side.
    rightmaking properties(explaining what makes an action ethically justified)
    The features or characteristics of an action that make it morally right or good.

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    Able to feel, experience sensations, and suffer. If something is sentient, it can experience pain or pleasure.
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    Creatures that can feel and suffer (like animals) but aren't considered people in the legal or philosophical sense.
    wrongmaking properties(explaining what makes an action ethically problematic)
    The features or characteristics of an action that make it morally wrong or bad.

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    The upper bound, moreover, is surely very low indeed, for of the billions of people and sentient non-persons who have existed, the proportion who have had the good fortune never to have suffered in ways such that the known wrongmaking properties of allowing such suffering outweighed the known rightmaking properties must be small. Accordingly, \(n\) must be extremely large, and thus the probability that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect person must be very low indeed.

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