“Creatures can use freedom for good or evil; evil results from improper creaturely use of freedom. The free will defense solution to the problem of evil provides a basis for claiming that creatures, not God, are culpable for the genuine evil that occurs.”
Free Will Defense The occurrence of evil, despite the existence of a perfectly loving and perfectly powerful God, poses a theoretical and existential problem. Source for information on Free Will Defense: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion dictionary.
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People need to be functionally free or flexible in order to simply move, perceive objects and to set their long-term goals. So maybe the possibility of evil is an inevitable consequence of the way we can improvise and adapt to the changing environment. It would be like the way thievery is a warped distortion of the otherwise understandable desire to get rewards without wasting time or overexertion and with less effort. So in some respects perhaps the “Universe” wouldn’t be able to remove the thoughts of committing evil by some sinister people even if “it” tried to remove their free will by altering their brain. Free will may not only be required for just self-fulfilment or spiritual objectives. It might be needed for mundane short-term acts like walking where we need to feel and balance the different forces on our legs.
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“Evil as the absence of good and human responsibility. God did not create evil. Human beings were created good, with a good will. Evil comes from disordered/misdirected love.”
That argument is a nice spiritual metaphor. Although I’m unsure if it could be translated to materialistic logic. For example, it’s a bit like inverting the force of heat and saying instead that heat is an absence of cold where coldness is the active force. Even though it’s somewhat circular, it’s true that technically no one is forced to do evil and it’s possible that absolutely everyone freely chooses to do good. That would nevertheless be impossibly unlikely so the “Universe” or whatever must have had the foresight to predict that many people would commit evil actions.
“The butterfly effect is the idea that small things can have non-linear impacts on a complex system. The concept is imagined with a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a typhoon.
Of course, a single act like the butterfly flapping its wings cannot cause a typhoon. Small events can, however, serve as catalysts that act on starting conditions.”
If people have free will, then the medium through which they interact (namely the physical world) would also probably have to be a bit chaotic or uncertain. Natural disasters might be a passive result of the inner chaos and intrinsic randomness of the physical world.