If that were true, then an all-good and all-loving God would not shrink from creating a world that contained the evil necessary for that good or goods to be achieved.[1] So there is no final inconsistency here, and the theist may wish to conclude on that basis that the problem of evil is resolved.
Moralistic rhetoric is used by the ruling elite itself on a daily basis: remember the "axis of evil" on the eve of the 2003 Iraq invasion?
There is no need for the sceptic to launch a strong argument that aims to prove that God cannot exist on the basis of the real existence of evil in this world.
But if there is a single underlying though mostly unspoken theoretical basis of Marx's understanding of evil, it is to be found in his Classical training, especially in his admiration for the thought of Aristotle ("the greatest thinker of antiquity", as he calls him a few lines prior to the citation above), and specifically in Aristotle's condemnation of excess.
Leibniz saw metaphysical evil as the basis for all other forms of evil, proposing that, although the world was created by God, it does not share His nature, so is imperfect.
What the company is quite happy to do is proclaim that it will be different, that it will be run on the basis of "Don't be evil," as the founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, explained in the Playboy interview.
The commission is thought by some foreign policy analysts to be the basis for President George W. Bush's axis of evil line in his 2002 State of the Union Address, in which he accused Iraq, Iran, and North Korea of being state sponsors of terrorism and of pursuing weapons of mass destruction.
As soon as you bring God into the world on a daily creative basis, then the theodicy problem – the problem of evil – rears its ugly head.
It's also important to recognize that choosing who we vote for on the basis of who's the lesser evil allows the continued creep of the Greater Evil.
According to Nicholas Vincent, while Roger's account of the exactions and crimes of the members of his list of evil advisers certainly had a strong basis of truth, it was also greatly exaggerated.
