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    It is not the case that Plutarch's dualist theology demonstrates that positing a separate principle for world badness is more coherent than attributing contradictory causal powers to a single good deity.

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    • 1.Introducing a second principle creates new problems: what determines their power balance, origin, and interaction?
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    • 2.Dualism violates monotheistic theological commitments and multiplies entities beyond necessity (Occam's razor).
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    • 3.Coherence alone doesn't establish truth; monism may be less elegant but more consistent with revelation traditions and metaphysical ultimacy.
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    • 1.A single omnipotent being creating both good and evil outcomes generates logical contradiction in standard theodicy formulations.
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    • 2.Positing distinct good and evil principles avoids requiring theodicy altogether, making metaphysical explanation more parsimonious.
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    • 3.Dualism better matches phenomenological experience of genuine moral opposition rather than treating evil as mere privation.
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