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    Some evils are such that their actuality, or at least the... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→It is not true that a perfectly good being would want to eliminate all evils.

    Some evils are such that their actuality, or at least their possibility, is logically necessary for goods that outweigh them.

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    The problem with that premise, as we saw, is that it can be argued that some evils are such that their actuality, or at least their possibility, is logically necessary for goods that outweigh them, in which case it is not true that a perfectly good being would want to eliminate such evils.

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