If other theodicies could provide a justification for God's allowing moral evil, then, of course, moral evil would not be a problem.
Simply to assert that a place contains both good and evil is, of course, banal.
Not Sandy the evil hurricane, of course, but Sandy the dog, a creature both docile and heroic.
"Anybody who believes fast food is the source of all dietary evil is, of course, being naïve," she said.
They believe nonliberals are blackmailers or hostage-takers or the concentrated repositories of human evil, so, of course, they see coalition-building as collaboration.
"Go on home," Amadeo says again, suddenly afraid, as if the old man had the power to work evil, though, of course, he doesn't.
But the programme's priorities – essentially biographical, with a side order of "what is evil?", unanswered, of course – seemed a bit peripheral to the horrors it presented.
He has done evil before, of course - it's hard to think of many characters more villainous than Chigurh from No Country for Old Men - but this tale of life at the world's end takes place in almost unrelenting darkness.
Instead of making that easy distinction which, on the whole, only the blasphemous make - non-religious people make this distinction very easily, between so-called good and so-called evil, when of course they are interrelated, and one is defined in terms of the other.
