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One who believes in a theistic god believes that god commits no evil and will only grant good to his people on earth. In order for this to be possible the world that we live in would have to be a beautiful place to live. When we look at the world that we live in, the last thing that we see is a perfect place to live. With that being true then it makes it very hard to believe that the god we believe in is anything close to perfect. To help show how imperfect our world is Philo (created dialogue by Hume) compares our universe to a very ugly palace. He goes on to explain that we cannot argue that the architect of the palace is not talented and that he might have had some limitations in what he could build, but if he was perfect he would of found a way to make his palace not ugly.
Philo then begins to tell us about the four types of evil in the world that we live in. With each evil Philo explains to us why each one was not needed to be created by god. The first evil is the existence of physical pain. The reason why pain is present is for us to realize that we shouldn’t do something that causes pain or to help us avoid certain situations. Philo suggests that instead of feeling pain why not just have decreases in pleasure when we do something that we shouldn’t. He uses an example of “All animals might be constantly in a state of enjoyment; but when urged by any of the necessities of nature…….;instead of pain they might feel a diminution of pleasure” (Hume,pg87). The second is the fact that the world is conducted by general laws. Philo states that instead of God should be able to run the world however he likes and that he should be able to decide what happens with everything. With this being true, god would be able to stop people from getting hit by a car or stop people from getting shot by a gun. He would be able to change physics whenever he pleased. The third example of evil is the limited abilities that we are given. Philo explains how god only granted us with the