The Epicurean Conundrum in question four Everyday most people especially in the United States go through their average life without ever having to fear for where they are going to get their next meal or survive the night. Most of us don’t have to think about such idea’s that revolve around us suffering from dying slowly from preventable diseases or organ failure at an early age. Any other life is nearly unthinkable except when we watch the news and see people in other parts of the world who die from the lack of clean water, food or other curable diseases. Subsequently, we think why do all these horrible things happen and for what reason are they allowed to continue? At this point, some of us turn to religion and pray for God in this case …show more content…
These thoughts are the product of free will we can decide if we want to save a life or to take one by just thought alone. People around the world practice these morals by either being oppressive and mean or nice and compassionate to others in need. God made it this way for a reason so that we can experience good moral virtues however, run the risk that we may experience terrible ones as well. Such as there being men like Hitler who implemented racial genocide of the Jews whereas, twenty years later men like Martian Luther King Jr. brought an end to segregation in the US. By both preaching and practicing non-violent peaceful acts of protest until both whites and blacks would no longer be segregated. Contrarily it’s right for Epicureans to believe that its wrong genocides to happen and then for people to turn to a God who won’t protect them. It’s important to know that it is a balance of how morals run the world balancing out evil with good and allowing people to have free will. Whether people like to admit it or not it’s by free choice that men like Hitler take up extreme malicious values and the free will of people decide to support him. Ensuring that God can’t be all-powerful or all-good if he stomps out one moral side to just have one which would break one of the two traits that God is known