True, except whose evil? 'Evil' by Woody Allen's atheistic definition? Why not his? Why not mine?
What does not follow from this is that everyone would choose to do evil-malakhi
Or that if there is a God, that it is not equally so that everything is still permitted (restrained only by the actions of man.... whether he believes in God, or not). Unless of course Dostoyevsky's argument is against free will-OWK
[different context]What a sophisticated intellectual refutation of Dostoyevsky's statement, and of the widely accepted version of the causes of the 20th century horrors.-Revolting cat!
Dostoevsky had Communists (they were called social reformists when he wrote) pegged. A system that attempts to define morality and forcefully denies that role from religion is totalitarian. That was indeed a cause of the tremendous suffering and 20 million dead in Soviet Russia. I agree with Revolting cat!.