[~ot] why is programming so fun?

[BCS]

Reply to e-t172,

> A related citation:
> 
> "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
> Then he is not omnipotent.
> Is he able, but not willing?
> Then he is malevolent.
> Is he both able and willing?
> Then whence cometh evil?
> Is he neither able nor willing?
> Then why call him God?"
> ~Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)

The question of "why does god allow evil?" could be rephrased as: "why does 
god allow the worst thing that can happen to happen?" If the worst that could 
happen was a paper cut, it would be the worst that could happen and we would 
see it as terrible. (This assumes, as the evidence shows, that the world 
is able to produce suffering beyond our own imagination.)