According to Mackie, It Is Sometimes Suggested That "The Universe

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According to Mackie, it is sometimes suggested that "The universe is better with some evil in it than it could be if there were no evil." Mackie criticizes this position when he argues that "we should be well on the way to an infinite regress, where the solution of a problem of evil, stated in terms of evil-n, indicated the existence of an evil-(n + 1), and a farther problem to be solved."

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