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Do you believe in God?
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I'm sure the tortured masses of Unit 731 would be happy to know their suffering offered scientists more data points and we really needed kids to be raped and murdered, you know... for all the shit it teaches us.
It's fair enough to disagree, but I think the point being made is if God is good and he is all knowing and all powerful, then why does he allow evil to exist?
There are a lot of answers to that question, but the only one I can think of that allows for an omniscient & omnipotent god who is good is that the existence of evil must somehow, in a way beyond our understanding, be a benefit to the greater good. This can be a tough sell to the victims of that evil.