The distinction between propositional and experiential engagement with evil collapses when arguments are encountered at moments of personal vulnerability and existential investment.

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Existential investment(as used in existential philosophy): When something deeply matters to your sense of who you are and how you live your life, not just as an interesting idea but as something that affects your survival or meaning.
Experiential engagement(as used in epistemology): Understanding something through direct, personal experience—feeling it in your body and emotions rather than just thinking about it intellectually.
Personal vulnerability(as used in existential philosophy): A moment when you feel exposed, weak, or emotionally open—times when you're more affected by ideas because they matter to you personally.
Propositional engagement(as used in epistemology (how we know things)): Thinking about something in abstract, intellectual terms—like reading about suffering in a textbook versus actually experiencing it yourself.

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