God's 'permission' of evil so multiplied is not simply to be accounted for by his respecting our free will. He takes the harms we mutually inflict and overrules them for our good.

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There is a certain school of thought that holds that God allows evil to happen so that we may learn from it. This is not the way of the great teacher. He does not teach by allowing us to do wrong and then teaching us lessons. It is not enough that he allow the evil to occur. He must overrule our own wills and force us to turn away from it, so that we might learn our lesson.

Source: Light On C. S. Lewis

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