somebody schrieb:

> And let's say their "god" or "laws of universe" prevented all foul smells
> from being emitted, by sentinent and non-sentinent beings alike. Would that
> be end of evil? No. It would then be elevator music, and the ability of
> their fellow beings to compose such horrorful melodies would be construed as
> evil. The bottomline is, then, if you want to eliminate evil, all
> possibilities for objectionable outcomes or behaviours need to be pruned.
> This will eventually eliminate *everything*, from bright lights to sharp
> corners to hard to open blister packages to slow booting computers, since a
> thinking being can find anything objectionable.

Not only would you need to eliminate any "negatives" - however benign - 
but also any "not-so-positives":

Even if you can eliminate all elevator music (ah, what a great world 
that would be!), people would find evil in some performance of Bach's 
music not because it was bad, but because the Chopin concerto they heard 
the other day was still better.


There is some truth to "all that humans deserve is punishment and 
death", if you read it with a different mindset:

"There's nothing good that you have a /right/ to, so stop bickering 
about the things in life that just aren't as perfect as you'd like them 
to be."

(Make sure to /not/ read this as an excuse to treat other people bad.)


> if one's to take all of Bible as literally true (a point which even
> christians don't take),

You'd be surprised.

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