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IdeaLogging. SeeAlso: ProblemOfPain. Sometimes termed the EpicureanParadox.
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There is a brief [http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/e9.htm#evil Philosophical Dictionary entry], on the Erasmus - Extrinsic page:
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:Bad things sometimes happen. Whether they are taken to flow from the operation of the world ("natural evil"), to result from deliberate human cruelty ("moral evil"), or simply to correlate poorly with what seems to be deserved ("non-karmic evil"), such events give rise to basic questions about whether or not life is fair.
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:The presence of evil in the world poses a special difficulty for traditional theists, as both Epicurus and Hume pointed out. Since an omniscient god must be aware of evil, an omnipotent god could prevent evil, and a benevolent god would not tolerate evil, it should follow that there is no evil. Yet there is evil, from which atheists conclude that there is no omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent god.
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Possibly what this entry terms "natural evil" would better fit under the heading ProblemOfPain, a term possibly originating with CliveStaplesLewis, who wrote a book by that title. Arguably, the ProblemOfEvil could be a subset of the ProblemOfPain, since the problem isn't actually that people do bad things, but that those things cause others to suffer.
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<[[Brennen]]> Theodicy.
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