1. In many sad events, we can’t see what good features outweigh the bad features.
2. Therefore it is likely that there are unjustified sad events : the good features don’t outweigh the bad. (from 1)
3. Therefore it is likely that: If God exists, the. He allows unjustified sad events. (from 2)
4. God would never allow unjustified sad events.
5. Therefore it’s likely that: God does not exist. (from 3 & 4 via MT) — Yajur
1. In many sad events, we can’t see what good features outweigh the bad features.
2. Therefore it is likely that there are unjustified sad events : the good features don’t outweigh the bad. (from 1)
3. Therefore it is likely that: If God exists, the. He allows unjustified sad events. (from 2)
4. God would never allow unjustified sad events.
5. Therefore it’s likely that: God does not exist. (from 3 & 4 via MT) — Yajur
4. God would never allow unjustified sad events. — Yajur
Your response to premise 1 misinterprets Yajur’s original claim: He is not stating that the good does truly not outweigh the bad, only that we often lack the ability to see how the good could outweigh the bad. He then reasons from that to premise 2: because we so often cannot see how the good outweighs the bad, it is at least likely that the good does not outweigh the bad in every single instance. This is supported with nearly unlimited antidotal examples of sad events that all center around the same theme: — adhomienem
You also state that maybe, “you cannot have the good without the right amount of bad.” But if we’re assuming an Greatest Conceivable Being as the one in charge of creating good, I fail to see how the existence of good necessitates the existence of some amount of bad. Take the God we’re assuming— He is Maximally Good without any bad, so clearly bad is not required to exist in order for good to exist. Of course, different rules apply to humankind, because we are not Maximal Beings, but then you wonder why God would even create us at all? If Maximal Good existed before humankind, without any bad, why would God then increase the amount — adhomienem
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