Olgratin_Magmatoe ,

Putting a limit on people’s choices is the antithesis of free will.

There will always be limits on people's choices. I don't have wings, I cannot choose to fly. I don't own a nuke, I cannot choose to nuke something.

So because limits on free will are inevitable, they should be reasonable, which means no evil.

For there to be distinct consciousness there needs to be the capability to make choices, which means there’s there’s the capability to make bad choices.

As is demonstrated by the sandwich example, even when no evil choice is available, choice is still possible.

For me to be incapable of throwing a jar of jam at you there would need to be an omnipotent being governing my decisions.

As is demonstrated by Forever Peace, this is not the case. The mechanism for Forever Peace being that humans see others as an extension of themselves, thus being incapable of harming others, but there is no limit to other mechanisms that would do this.

Destroying things is the opposite of creation, which would be against everything God is supposed to be.

That would appear to be blatantly false. The universe constantly is destroying things. Celestial bodies get destroyed every day. Stars die, black holes consume, planets get bombarded with rocks from space. This planet alone has had 5 mass extinction events.

Not a year passes where there isn't some child starved to death or slowly killed by disease. Natural disasters wipe people's homes off the face of the earth and kill thousands.

The universe is an incredibly hostile place.

But is mocking other people’s beliefs making the world a better place?

When it is ultimately a force for suffering, yeah absolutely.

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