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An all-powerful, good God would make a world in which human beings have freewill and can choose kindness over cruelty. Mackie’s main objection is to question why God didn't create us so that we always choose good over evil of our own freewill. It is better that God made us with freewill and not as robots or automata who are kind or brave in a machine-like way.

it is impossible, even for God, to create a being which has free will and to ensure that it never brings about evil.

free will is a great good creatures that lack freewill are automata and a world of automata would be worse than a world with evil in it.

Mackie asks how can this count as a solution to the problem of evil, given that God created the freewilled creatures? The theist's reply has to be something like this: This is the "Freewill Defence" proposed by Alvin Plantinga.

The basic idea here is that many kinds of evil are not the result of God’s actions, but of the free actions of human beings.