If prolonged reflection reveals no outweighing good served by an evil, that is good (defeasible) evidence that there is none
Arguments for this claim
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Appears as a step in
- The Inference from Inscrutable Evil (premise 2, an argument for “There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse”)