Date: 2009-11-09 07:35 pm (UTC)
I think we all go through the phase of writing too-perfect characters, before figuring out how much we lose by doing so. If you think on it, even in the Bible, there's Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, perfect and beautiful and happy and beloved. So of course they need to be tricked and betrayed and cursed and kicked out.

It's not sadism because we're not specifically enjoying the pain aspect. We just like the development created by the pain.

I suppose it's not precisely free-will but it's a lack of being a puppet. The characters have their own personality and can't be made to just say anything. The nice guy isn't going to randomly start a barroom brawl for fun even if I have god-like powers to make him.

There's the four descriptions of God: omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent. You can't have all four. Unless God's idea of benevolence is a great deal different from most humans'. Which I think is rather likely.
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