.
I know.
Waiting to say "that's not evidence."
Well, that rather depends on whether or not it is, you know, evidence.
The "Problem with the Problem of Evil" is that if there's no evil you've got nobody to blame for the existence of evil.
And if there's no God, there's no problem of evil.
So it's ironic that the same atheists who accuse God of not being sufficiently benevolent are simultaneously asking for evidence that the God they are referring to actually exists.
...because there's only a 'problem' if He exists.
No, there's a problem of evil regardless, because evil exists regardless of whether there was anything sane or intelligible to blame.
The problem is in fact a problem only for those who claim Gods exist, for those who claim this is a simulation, and that ultimately simulations are created by someone benevolent.
These are each huge stretches.
For everyone willing to admit that creators, whether or not they exist, do not deserve worship, there remains no problem to which blame must be assigned, and each event is only as "on purpose" evil as purpose held by actors in the system, and the single act the creator is responsible for is "creation", an ultimately neutral act, and it is the responsibility of those purposeful things when purposes are pursued.
It is the assignment of impossible qualities that creates the insanity of Christianity and the problem of evil, and the issue of divine command theory. When these beliefs take root in people who have high in-group, purity, and authority traits, it results in a certain kind of weaponized idiocracy that is the antithesis of what the disciples of John the Baptist preached.
I think that the direct observation of the logic and theory about the consideration of the simulation/host divide has the answers YOU really wish you had. You can get that knowledge. It involves going to school and studying something boring that not everyone even has the mind to understand until it ceases being boring, something that computers will do and in the medium-term future will only be done by humans for artistic purposes.
Humans should among us seek as much as possible to understand as much of technology and how individuals may come to realize their dreams as they may, even when those dreams are dark; how else after all do we understand, but by how they may, to see how we may yet make such dreams as would harm us NOT?
This involves admitting to ourselves that regardless of the nonsense wherein people proclaim without evidence that we are simulated, we are responsible such as we are for what we do, and we ought not do things to others that we do not want done to ourselves.
If there's a god or gods and if that god programs scripted events from which there is no alternative but to be ensnared and puppeteered, if there is a "design of fate", this is itself a true sin, for it could just as easily write me in as someone doomed to fail tragically as it could write me someone to succeed in some grand and joyous comedy and take meaning from the efforts I make relating to who I am and who I shall be in the future!
The problem of evil is a problem only for the believer in God, and so we bring it up as non-believers as a reason to become non-believers so that it's not a logical problem for them anymore.
