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2025-08-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Plato Solved the Problem of Evil 2,300 Years Ago

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-08-20 05:19|| || Front Page|| [316 views ] Top

#1 Something called Human free will.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-20 07:11|| 2025-08-20 07:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Who was Plato?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-20 07:44|| 2025-08-20 07:44|| Front Page Top

#3 If we cannot choose evil, we are not choosing. The problem does not lie with God. One man, for instance, recently funded the creation of an Old Testament plague that killed millions of people. Satan gave him the same selling script as he gave Christ in the desert. Anthony chose poorly. He still has a limited number of remaining choices he can make to avoid the eternal lava hot tub. It’s the same system for all of us. We get to choose. There our consequences for our choices to us and to those around us. We need to choose wisely.

Posted by Bertie Chaith1481 2025-08-20 08:03|| 2025-08-20 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 That was me.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-08-20 08:04|| 2025-08-20 08:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Why you are not as selfish as you think

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-20 08:33|| 2025-08-20 08:33|| Front Page Top

#6 "...goodness requires maximum diversity."

Not a popular opinion at the moment...

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Posted by Mercutio 2025-08-20 08:34|| 2025-08-20 08:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Who was Plato?

An ancient featherless biped.

Posted by SteveS 2025-08-20 09:15|| 2025-08-20 09:15|| Front Page Top

#8 I understand Plato was also a decorated military veteran, earning accommodation, IIRC, one instance participating in a fighting withdrawal, saving many fellow soldiers.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-20 20:18|| 2025-08-20 20:18|| Front Page Top

#9 one major problem w the 'maximizing the universe to maximize goodness' (as advocated by Plato, Abelard, etc.) is that maximizing the universe also maximizes evil

pointed out by numerous commentators

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-08-20 20:25|| 2025-08-20 20:25|| Front Page Top

#10 I hate multiverse.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-20 20:52|| 2025-08-20 20:52|| Front Page Top

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