We are unable to discern any good coming from this single instance of evil, and the same could doubtless be said for millions of others.
It assumes that for each instance of evil that occurs, we humans will be able to detect any good toward which it might be directed, and that we will be able to tell whether the good is achieved, whether it was worth the evil sustained in reaching it, and whether it could better have been achieved without the attendant evil.
If this seems insufficient, the theist can argue that in a world where each an every instance of evil was thoroughly and obviously defeated — so that a perfectly satisfying response to opponents of theism would always be available — an important dimension of evil would be missing.
And this is a light instance of overlooking evil because of the package it came in.... Scarlett Johansson turned her back on Oxfam, an umbrella company of a number of anti-poverty organizations, so she could be the spokesperson for Tel Aviv-based company, SodaStream?
In a theodicy, the project is not to account for each and every evil, but to provide an overarching framework within which to understand at least roughly how the evil that occurs is part of some overall good for instance, the overcoming of evil is itself a great good.
For instance, on some conceptions of evil, evildoers are possessed, inhuman, incorrigible, or have fixed character traits (See Cole 2006, 1 21; Russell 2006 and 2010; Haybron 2002a and 2002b).
With respect to questions about specific instances of natural and moral evil, this ontology is even more subtle.
What if this, in turn, led to a different Bush administration policy--no inclusion of the DPRK in the infamous "Axis of Evil," for instance?
For instance, the evil of disease consists in a privation of health, and the evil of sin consist in a privation of virtue.
For instance, Calder argues that it is an essential property of evil actions that the evildoer intends that his victim suffer significant harm while it is not an essential property of wrongful actions that the wrongdoer intend to cause harm.
In the majority of instances of transformation of another, the transformation is considered to be the result of evil magical powers, and most tales conclude with the disenchantment of the subject, his release from the evil power, and his return to his original form.
