struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)the only thing we could mean, when we say 'the world is imperfect,' is 'we would change some things if we could'
And for as long as we have records, there seem to have been humans working hard at doing so, in various ways -- say, by making 'better' shoes or trying to cure particular diseases
Although many in this forum apparently dislike those answers (to questions about the world's 'imperfections') which reference 'free will,' such an answer, when properly understood, seems to me the only possible responsible answer: it redirects our attention from meaningless abstract gooble-de-gook back to the practical problem of choosing how to spend our time productively
There's no way to make sense of the question, 'How could a perfect being create anything imperfect?' There's no way to tell whether an 'answer' to the question is 'tight' or 'wrong' -- and there's nothing obvious that we could do with a 'right answer' to the question: the only thing one can do is suggest spending time and energy to improve some 'imperfection'
Thus, to 'How could a perfect being create anything imperfect?' one simply retorts 'So that you would be able to choose to make something better,' hoping enough people take the hint
And those who refuse to take the hint? Well, we all only a limited amount of time: why waste it in pointless arguments about the whatness-of-nothing?