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I always see it coming back "evil is required for free choice".
Doesn't make any sense to me. Does gravity limit my free choice because i can't just fly into the sky? Or does death limit my free choice because i might just want to continue to exist on this plane? Does my body limit my free choice because i might just want to be non corporeal (but not divine at the same time), not bound by hunger, disease, ....
All of the above are not an issue for "free choice", but allowing me to "choose for evil" somehow is?
If a world where crime and pain and disease and ... doesn't exist. I don't see how there would be no free choice in that world. We would be bound by the restrictions of that world, just as we are currently bound by the restrictions of the current world.
It imo just sounds like a really lame excuse for the problem of evil. It does seem to work for those who believe in a god apparently, but i find that hard to understand. Our choices are incredibly limited, and we still regard it as "free will". But that one choice, o boy, that one choice that if god could prevent us from making it, and thus would disprove him being good if that was an option. That one specific choice, yeah, that's obviously not possible. He's all powerful, but that's just how it is you know?
I really don't get how this is supposed to make any sense. Any god worth being called a god could have made a world without suffering, while still allowing for free choice. Choice is always limited, and evil & suffering aren't special in any way. Take them away and i can still choose to enjoy a billion different things, while not having to suffer at all.
The answers will always boil down to: "god works in mysterious ways and we must have faith"