Thus, nothing is evil for itself or else it wouldn't exist.
Thus, nothing is evil for itself or else it wouldn't exist. The reality of every being is also its being for itself and its own purpose of life. As humans we call things evil when they are in conflict with our immediate interests. This reminds us of what Voltaire says: Evil signifies that which displeases us .[^1] We should, however, bear in mind that we are not the only creatures on earth nor the only one for whom this universe is created.
As humans we are free in selection of the terms, but cannot imply our terminology to denote the existence of God or limit His attributes. There will remain one question that couldn't God have arranged things so that no one ever suffered? Couldn't God made human beings immune to all disease? Couldn't God made the earth that no fatal earthquake or volcanoes needed? There are several answers to these questions.
If you read the rest of the article, you should be able to find satisfactory answers to them all. Evil Disappears in the Gestalt Outlook Gestalt is a school in psychology that deals mainly with the processes of perception. Gestalt is a physical, biological, psychological, or symbolic configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that its properties cannot be derived from a simple summation of its parts.
In Psychology it mainly deals with thinking, memory, and the nature of aesthetics. One of the principles of cosmology is the correlation and harmony of all seemingly separate elements of the universe. The universe, therefore, should be observed as a Gestalt to see its correct image.
Philosophers from the ancient time to the present time by and large agree that the entire universe is a unified organism adding to it or omitting any part from it, disturbs the structure and the harmony of the universe. Those who claim there could be a better world if God was really Benevolent and Omnipotent are suffering a very limited viewpoint and are not looking at the entire structure of the universe.