I'm a [nontheist], so I am not the one to consider this as any kind of [proof] or [disproof] of [God].

I look at [evil] from a totally [different] [perspective]; I don't see it as a [problem].

To me, the whole [concept] of [evil] makes any [sense] only as part of the [closed system] our [reality] is ([i.e.], the [Universe] we live in, or [samsara], or whatever we may choose to call it).

Whatever or whoever produced this [system] exists outside of the [system]. To him/her/it/them [evil] does not have the meaning it does to us. So it does not prevent him/her/it/them from being [perfect], or loving, [kind], caring, [etc], at least, again, from the [perspective] of us living in this [closed system] and looking out of this system.

Hence, I do not see a [problem], only a [speculation] about something that cannot be answered as long as we stay within the system.

In other words, if a [computer programmer] created a [complex] [system] of [game]s and other [program]s interacting with each other, including sentient and intelligent objects, they could learn about themselves and each other. But anything they might come up with about the [programmer] and his/her [intention]s, [perfection], [etc], would forever be a [speculation], and a pretty pointless one. (That is why I am a [nontheist], neither a [theist], nor an [atheist], nor an [agnostic] - the question of [God] simply does not exist for me.)

For that matter, with one [exception], I do not think in terms of [good] and [evil] at all. I think in terms of the [wholesome] and the [unwholesome], in terms of that which hurts and imposes [pain] and [suffering], and that which frees from [pain] and [suffering]. Not just my [pain] and [suffering], but that of all [sentient being]s.

The only [exception] where I think in terms of [good] and [evil] is [drama].

As an [actor], I love playing [evil] [character]s because it is the [depth] and [strength] of the [villain] that makes the [hero] look [good]. There are no heroes without villains.

As a [writer], I make sure my [fictional] [character]s are exposed to as much [evil] as I can think up. Again, it is the [evil] they are faced with that makes the [reader] feel for them and [identify] with them. And it is the [evil] they overcome with their own [effort] that makes them [memorable] [character]s, [i.e.], [character]s the [reader] will remember long after he has [forget|forgotten] the [detail]s of the [story].

So, I don't view [evil] as a [problem] but as the greatest [dramatic tool]. As far as I am concerned, we only see [evil] as [real] because we tend to like having some [drama] in our own lives.

And should there be such a [thing] as [God], then he is a masterful [dramatist] who has put [evil] in our lives to make them more [challenge|challenging] and [interesting].

Problem of Evil (idea)