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  • The human is primed for tribalism and these parties are exploiting that bug to offer the always-attractive solution of "this group of people is to blame". This time, it's Muslims and generally immigrants.

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  • Before you paid for "free" software with your data, you used to pay by agreeing to install a search bar in your browser. Usually you just uninstalled it directly afterwards. Not this guy though.

  • A cool guide to Epicurean Paradox
  • The argument we were discussing was that god was either evil (as in not good) or not omnipotent.

    Whether humans must be evil due to free will is another discussion entirely, and I would propose that free will is never entirely free and always limited by our perception and understanding of the world. If evil didn't exist, you would be as free to be evil as you are to ignore gravity. Also, most religions believe in a paradise free from evil, so does that mean you lose your free will once you enter?

  • A cool guide to Epicurean Paradox
  • Yes, exactly. If there is a god, they definitely either aren't omnipotent, or they aren't good according to our definition of being good (as they ignore our unnecessary suffering).

  • A cool guide to Epicurean Paradox
  • Don't see how that's what I proposed as good. As time wouldn't exist for god (implication of being omnipotent), there's no reason that suffering ever existed in the first place - no need to change anything on a running system.

  • A cool guide to Epicurean Paradox
  • An omnipotent god could alter nature in a way that makes us able to enjoy good without needing to suffer. If they can't, they're not omnipotent. If they don't want to, they're letting us suffer unnecessarily, and they're not good.

  • A cool guide to Epicurean Paradox
  • A four sided triangle is a verbal misconstruct, because we chose those names to represent different objects - nothing to do with what god can or can't do. They could make all of us believe that four-sided polygons are called triangles, which fulfills the requirement you propose. On the other hand, free will can't "require" suffering, because a requirement would mean there is a rule god can't break, which would mean they are not omnipotent.

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