Examples of pointless moral evils include events such as the holocaust, violent rape of children, the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, etc. These moral evils all have a dehumanizing effect that remove the victim’s dignity, and eradicates the meaning, purpose, and value from the victim’s life (Trakaki, 2007, p. 26). The notion of pointless evils refutes John Hick’s notion that the “evil present in our world is the inevitable by-product of God’s aim of developing souls with moral character” (Hick, 1966), because there is plenty of suffering in the world that are so horrendous and dehumanizing, that people are stripped of their hope, happiness and meaning. This makes the development virtues from these experiences nearly impossible. John Roth
