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Re:Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors by RHSeeger on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:38PM (#21774789)
- God is all knowing

- God is all powerful

- God created the universe

Given the above three, God created the universe knowing he was creating it in a way that said sex traffickers would come into being, and that they would get access to said phones/encryption.

It is literally impossible for the first three items to be true and the consequence to be false. As such, "this gift to sex traffickers" did, indeed, come for God (and Apple).

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Re:Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors by jjgreen on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:36PM (#21776139)
It depends on what you think omnipotence is; if you believe that it is constrained by consistency (God cannot create a square circle) then it could be the case that any world created would have some evil. Then a benign God could create the "best possible world" in which bad things happen.

All academic anyway, there is no God.

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Re:Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors by RHSeeger on Saturday December 14, 2019 @08:35PM (#21793824)
Even given that, He chose to create this world, with these people. Choosing between 2 evils doesn't mean you chose evil, but it does mean you chose an evil.
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