In fact, Saint-Pierre establishes a fruitful synergy between Rousseau's anthropodicy, which provides a social and historical justification of evil, and Leibniz's eschatology, aimed at its metaphysical and otherworldly justification.
Yet, it seems obvious to us that if a German government office were to display the Third Reich's flag, claiming with it comes their expression of pride in the development of the Autobahn, we would consider this not only absurd, but also a justification of the worst of human evil.
Black also identifies a mechanism Fleming uses in Casino Royale and in subsequent Bond novels which is to use the evil of his opponents both as a justification of his actions, and a device to foil their own plans.
A justification of these premises, of course, does not exist.
The film doesn't at all come off as a theodicy, as a justification of evil, of crime, of rape, or of Count F's own actions.
In theodicy (the justification of God as good when evil is observable in the world), Ibn Taymiyyah wished to describe God as he is described in the Qurʾān and as the Prophet did in the sunnah, which led him to side with theological schools in disagreement with contemporary opinion.
If other theodicies could provide a justification for God's allowing moral evil, then, of course, moral evil would not be a problem.
It is a matter of "evil".
It is an irony that while Khayyam complains about theodicy and human suffering throughout his Rubā'iyyāt, in his philosophical works he offers a treatise almost entirely devoted to a philosophical justification of the problem of evil.
