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there be any vice?
CONCEPTION OF VIRTUE & VICE. causality, nay against the whole righteous adjustment of the world, and is a horrible inconsistency.
But we have not as yet got rid of another difficulty which may perplex the Why should mind of one interested in this problem ; for questions like this as "why should there be any vice at all ?” cannot but disturb minds of earnest inquirers. True, they may say, there is the law of Karma-causality, the firm grip of which, no one can elude on commission of vice-truer indeed that by virtue, the torpid conscience is awakened, the close affections are opened and the slavery of selfishness can be successfully escapedbut why is this world at all tainted with vice and not a world of pure unalloyed virtue ? Or, more briefly, why there is any sin at all ?
The obvious reply to such enquirers is that it is due to our free-will. We are as man, the most gifted animals in the arena of the universe, and this best possible endowment, namely the power to choose between good and evil regardless of their unavoidable consequences, includes in its
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