drethelin comments on My Wild and Reckless Youth - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 08 October 2012 09:18:34AM 1 point [-]

Most of the evil in the world is caused by god. People starve, because god made us to hunger. This can make you rob, beat, and kill to survive. People are lonely, horny, prideful, angry and vengeful. This makes them fight each other for status, war and plot for glory, and rape for sex. God gave us glands, faulty brains, and hormones. In what sense is our will free? Does someone choose to be born during a drought, or to be infected with malaria by a mosquito?

If I have to assume an involved creator I have to assume we're either entertainment or an experiment