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Originally Posted by austintorn@aol.com 
The root cause of all things is existence: matter.
Free will or free won't has come to mean for many that we are "free" to choose based on what we have amounted to from learning, genetics, etc.
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Austintorn please read my response to Profpat below:
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First you have to define what evil is.
Before we ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no evil, no good either, just life.
According to Rousseau it was knowledge that corrupted.
And so my guess is KNOWLEDGE.
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When we consider "evil" subjectively it is arbitrary - our "evil" varies from person to person - I can name an "evil" that you would call "good". Some subjective evil has majority consensis - but it still is subjective and not even necessarily an evil.
But "evil: objectively is anything that defaces life.
It is only the human who can deface life - all other things are life that can be only what it is according to nature.
You say "evil" arose in the context of Tree of Knowledge good and bad - but you must realize that the act eating the fruit in the first place was "evil" evidenced by the disregard for natural law (GOD in this case).
So what was at the root of this decision to go against the law.
Knowledge of Good and Bad is a symptom of evil not a cause.
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If you accept the above distinction re-matter, human and non-human, what is the cause of human matter being "evil" ie defacing life.
[CONSIDER AND TRY AGAIN]