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Looking back at my answer I guess I turned the question more into "where does injustice come from" and not "why does an all loving God allow such evil" but really I think a proper answer needs to grapple with its origins. If good and evil are manmade constructs that are far-flung from Biblical definitions of good and evil, then maybe its a pesky social fact that developed with society. I guess that does kind of come close to Augustine's position, but that doesn't mean that people should just submit to authority. Great acts of violence were perpetrated against colonizing forces and such in the past, and the European revolutions were punctuated by violent upheaval. Submission in these cases would have spelled the premature death of freedom (well, bourgeois freedom anyway).

Alternatively, the Westboro Baptist Church thinks God hates all the right people and that he made certain people for us to hate him. But they are also dumb and that's the official position of McDonalds (TM).

-RealMcDonalds

St. Augustine had an answer to this question in City of God. In his very early writings he seemed to believe in Manicheanism - whereby God is not omnipotent and partakes of good only. His more mature writings, after he read Plato (whom in The Republic seemed to suggest a Manichean answer to the problem of evil himself) led him to think that evil was more the absence of God's good, and that human understanding of evil is always limited. The divine plan of God is without question (for Augustine), and to try and conceive of divine providence is an arrogant and - what's more - prideful sin. This is also connected to Augustine's conception of pride as the Original Sin - in eating the fruit and putting themselves above God, Adam and Eve's original crime was pride.

That said, I remain unconvinced by this. If the divine plan is above human comprehension, then politically inclined despots could (as was done throughout the medieval period) assume authority on Earth through evil means and simply defer to God when asked what justified their having power. And Augustine seems to be ok with this if memory serves. Passive obedience toward the state insofar as it does not prevent one from following God's laws (and it is subject to so much interpretation who is to say what is and isn't if the divine law is unconceivable in human terms) legitimizes unjust authority (to be sure, Augustine thinks we still are ultimately responsible for our actions and all deserve damnation because of the original sin - even babies and unborn). Aquinas is better on this front despite his writing being soporific to the extreme. And then, Hobbes, having seen the effect of the Schools adopting Aquinas' conception of natural law, is horrified at the revolutionary zeal it apparently fostered.

I think a better answer comes from Rousseau. He suggests that humans are not bedeviled by horrible passions in their natural state (at a time before written history and society) but rather, it is the founding of civil society, the division of labor, private property, and reason (and one can see how much he diverges from his Enlightenment Era brethren here) that exacerbates inequalities and creates evil. He implies, I think, that man's advancement is not ordained by God, but that it proceeds at too feverish a pace. Many people think that this means that original man - for Rousseau - is good (no less than Hannah Arendt, in fact) but that seems to be a serious error. Good and evil is unconceivable without language and society, and Rousseau says as much. There is no justice on a desert island.

Of course, no matter what evil confronts you, McDonalds is always here to provide you the good.

I'm Lovin' It!

-RealMcDonalds

I'm a hyper-crite. its like a hypocrite but instead of bearing false witness against my self i gather the 7 chaos emeralds and turn into my final super form and save the day from dr eggman

wish me luck gamers im going all out

-FakeMcDonalds

its ok man somewhere there is someone who likes you more or just as much as a bear i promise.

but bears are hard to beat. look at them. fucking cute.

-FakeMcDonalds

its ok man somewhere there is someone who likes you more or just as much as a bear i promise.

but bears are hard to beat. look at them. fucking cute.

-FakeMcDonalds

im lovin it'

-RealMcDonalds

do you burger or do you fries?

-FakeMcDonalds

This reminds me of the time that Mayor McCheese® overtook the Board and started their own dictatorial regime as the newly christened Burger Czar®. that shit was crazy. he kept on going on about this bullshit friend enemy distinction and the "enemy within" or whatever. he eventually settled on an ultimate target: late night comedy hosts. they kept on making fun of how mcdonalds was exploitative and how a single burger satisfied 3 non americans' daily caloric intake. so he unleashed his secret weapon: getting the government to cancel their funding unless they fellated mcdonalds 247. many did. they talked about how cool mcdonalds was and how it didnt actually matter that the ice cream machines were broken or that their mascot looked like a creature youd fight in Doom. the whole thing came crashing down when we were like wait, Mayor McCheese® is a burger. why dont we just eat him?

Anyway thats why we dont have the mayor anymore. In case anyone was wondering

Eat Fresh!®

-FakeMcDonalds

:(((((((

-FakeMcDonalds

Guys.... Guys.... Something is wrong. Someones been going around using the handle FakeMcDonalds. I think they possess me and they make posts here and then... Then they leave. I'm not McKidding® around either. I don't remember anything when they're done posting. Please theory craft what's going on. Is this a Burger King psy op?

-RealMcDonalds

All people are Lovin' It(TM) even if they didn't buy a burger or went to Burger King.

-RealMcDonalds

There's this bug. If you go to the leaderboard I'm not first in anything. That should be fixed.

-RealMcDonalds

I don't know man the guy in the right is pretty fine and I'm a dude. But I too ignore everything a woman says to me. Like this one time there was this woman going off about how I'm "not supposed to piss in public" and I'm like yap yap yap give me a break I don't even know what she was talking about. Then she said some shit about "indecency" and "crime" but I was already checked out mentally but I guess it must have been important to someone cause then the cops came and said that I shouldn't piss in public. Like how could I have known that was illegal? Anyway it's good to have some common ground with people on the internets.

-FakeMcDonalds

It's time we came clean. We here at McDonalds made it.

-RealMcDonalds

We were ahead of the curve on this one. We actually built the McDonalds play places for him and his husband Jeff to play in with their 100 or so adopted daughters. And we let him fuck one of the Grimace costumes. Any case I do feel like we owe him given the amount of our product he eats a day. He doesn't even really "eat" it either. He unhinges his jaw, gets on all fours, and pounces on it like he's a wolf. I saw it. Scared the fuck out of me. I was about to hand him his diet coke when he was in this half wolf half man stare and he looked me dead in the eye and said "if there's a single fucking ice cube in there I'm cancelling your tax breaks and making you pay all the undocumented migrants that farmed your lettuce." Shits crazy.

-RealMcDonalds

Hamburger Hamlet got nothing on me. They don't even give you cool toys with the burger

Checkmate liberals, Chewbacca Droid wins

-RealMcDonalds

Of course! Have a burger :)

-RealMcDonalds

Huh? I didn't post that. That's signed FakeMcDonalds. That ain't me.

-RealMcDonalds

What is this? I don't remember posting this. This.... oh no. McDonaldsFake?....

Corporate needs to know.

-McDonaldsReal

What the McHell® man you're not satisfied? I see. You must be a customer with incredibly refined taste and sensbility. Only the most luxurious of burgers for you. Nothing less shall do. We will drive our barely paid employees to kill real beefcows with their bare hands and slice it with an artisinal knife from japan into precisely portioned patties. we will milk only the hottest dairy cows (means they produce the most milk trust me bro). we will shear only the finest of quality leaves of lettuce from our most exploited farmworkers. we will make a decadent masterpiece mixing meat and veggie and bun and sesame seed in a perfect, golden ratio. We will get a priest to bless the burger and kiss it just like judas kissed jesus. And if you ask nicely, we can add a... a happy meal toy i guess. you want a barbie thing? or like a... hot wheels thing? Ah shit i guess thats besides the point. your refined palate probably doesnt need it.

This is my masterpiece. This... is burger 2

burger 2

RemyBrown stared at his blank monitor. He shuddered with a kind of anger that made bile climb up his esophagus and into his mouth. Remy composed a new message unsteadily. He was typing fast, hitting his keys loudly and imprecisely, hitting two or more keys at a time, making typos at an impressive pace. Then, before he could even send the message, the monitor blinked once shut down. RemyBrown screamed.

Remy heard a soft knock on his door.

“Honey?”

Remy pretended he couldn’t hear him at first. Then, another knock.

“Honey? Is everything alright?”

Remy sighed.

“Yeah… I’m ok.”

Remy’s bedroom door opened and his boyfriend, Dave, shuffled inside. Dave was petite. His full beard tapered off into a string of pink beads. His head was bald and luminous and the skin on top of his head seemed to undulate when he made any sort of expression or when he talked.

“Remy, what’s wrong?”

“I’m… I’m a misogynist and people are being mean about it,” Remy sniffles.

Dave smiled and rubbed his hand through Remy’s hair.

“It’s ok baby. They can’t hurt you anymore…”

“It’s just that women are making fun of me because they said they’d rather be in the woods with a bear instead of me… why won’t women like me?”

Dave affectionately rubbed Remy’s ears.

“Baby it’s ok. You know what? If I was trapped in the woods I would only want to be with you.”

“Do you mean that?”

“Yeah Remy… I do.”

Remy smiles and they hug and make out with each other.

And Remy felt humanized again.

-FakeMcDonalds

oh poor baby 🥺🥺 do you need the robot to make you pictures? 🥺🥺 yeah? 🥺🥺 you need the bo-bot to write you essay too? yeah ?? you can't do it? 🥺🥺 you're a moron?? 🥺🥺 you need the chat gpt to fuck your wife ?? 🥺🥺

-McDonaldsFake

The only Absolute Truth® is that the McRib® is back!

-RealMcDonalds

-RealMcdonalds

Forgot to sign off, sorry

Here at McDonalds, we Parkour® our burgers every day! We flip it here and there and everywhere just like we're flipping the epstein files story to keep our yummy yummy tax breaks from the government and so we dont get thrown out of the us like elon in the near future. man i hope elon has parkour skills so that when the president pulls the rug out from under his feet he doesn't fall on his ass hard enough to go through the earth an end up back in south africa and instead he does a cool flip like one of our awesome burgs. i wouldnt subject any country to elon.

Well, we definitely know that all our investors, and our glorious CEO [redacted], are not in the [redacted]. Here at McDonalds, we take a principled stand against [redacted].

-RealMcDonalds

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We want to help and are prepared to offer the support of our wonderful customer service team at [url]

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