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by geysersam 574 days ago
Couldn't that be a misreading of Voltaire though? I didn't interpret Candide as "there is suffering", I interpreted it as "this is obviously not the best possible world and no logical gymnastics can convince me it is"

(With the collorary that logic is pretty useless in moral philosophy if it's only used to find contrived justification for the status quo.)