Epicurus: If God is willing to prevent evil and can't, then he is impotent. If he is able to prevent evil but doesn't, then he is malevolent. If he is both willing and able, then whence then is evil?
Albert Camus (Atheist/Existentialist): We must recognize evil in all its forms but we must not accept it. Evil is the negative acts that humans can commit - killing, war, genocide, cruelty to others. Human dignity lies in our struggle against evil, to defy it, to reject it, to carry on in the face of it. Look at the world and your own life as absurd. Seeing, sensing, and, ultimately, owning that absurdity leaves two choices: suicide or revolt. Revolt against absurdity gives life a value, suicide gives in to absurdity. Bearing witness to the absurdity of life by revolting against it is the only proper choice in the end.
~Main premis behind The Plague
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