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[edit] Tierno's critique

The following was added by I believe Joel Thomas Tierno himself. It is probably accurate, but not appropriate on that page:

Actually, the preceding characterization of Tierno's view is incorrect. His position is that the argument from freedom of the will fails to provide an adequate explanation of moral evil on the scale that we find it distributed in the world. It is not that we cannot lay any instances of moral evil down to human freedom, it is that we cannot properly lay all the instances that we find down simply to human freedom. When a phenomenon is as widely distributed as moral evil is, human freedom alone cannot adequately account for that distribution. It does not follow from this that human freedom cannot adequately account for any instances of moral evil.

I tried to address the issue on the main page. --Vesal (talk) 11:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)