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You're very right that what that anon is doing is effectively saying there is no such thing as evil, all actions ought to be done since they all make the world better.
It's a severe misunderstanding of what evil is. All evil leaves permanent holes in the goodness of the world. This is why it's so utterly abominable and God is so insistent on its complete eradication.
Of course the natural question then is why He doesn't completely eradicate it. The answer is that that isn't a logically possible option on the table for Him. That might sound like it's a denial of omnipotence, but it's actually a fascinating consequence of it!
Think about it: how good would the best possible being be driven to make the world? That's like asking "what's the highest number?". No matter how much good is in a world, the best possible being must want there to be more.
Suppose there was a world where the best possible being existed. This being has the maximum power and maximum drive to increase good. What does it do?
Well, it can't make as much good as it wants, since it will always want more no matter how much there is.
So what's the solution? Make the world infinitely good. But actual infinities, in the sense of a completed infinity, aren't logically possible. So instead? What's called a potential infinity. These never actually reach infinity but always approach it - that is, always increase.
So He sets the quantity of good in this world to a potential infinity. A world where good is always increasing: the total amount of goodness in that world always goes up and up. He uses His omnipotence when necessary to ensure that remains true, but otherwisedon't directly increase the amount of good. Otherwise the question becomes "by how much?" and you have a logical paradox on your hands.
So He destroys evil when evil threatens the growth of good in the world as whole, but evils below that scale He needs us to tackle
