Assertion: severe evil | /r/CapableOf | call for such severe punishment
Facets:
value: in the first place
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Even if we ignore the insane assumption, presupposed by this idea, that the world's evil constitutes just punishment for past transgressions (child abuse clearly falsifies it), the truth of this claim would merely introduce the new problem of accounting for what justified God in permitting the severe evil that called for such severe punishment in the first place.