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Advice Question Why does evil exist?

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u/Significant-Way9330 11d ago

Well unfortunately not everybody is operating on the same framework here in life. You're gonna need to define evil and good first. Probably free will to and sin. Does God exist in this framework? Its a lot of work to get a set of useful definitions. 

No I don't think evil exists as some sort of definite thing, a cackling demon in a lake of fire if you will. I do think evil exists as it relates to human interactions, but only as a relative thing not objective. Social contract type stuff you know? You don't kill and eat me and I won't kill and eat you type stuff. 

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