For the natural evil, I chose earthquakes; the evil that I believe is the result of people’s actions is murder. The world is viewed as a combination of good and evil, a place of growth and development where humans can reach the level of perfection for which God created them.
The problem of evil concerning animals and their suffering, which can be avoided, is the harm caused by people, for example, during the slaughter or exploitation of eggs and milk. This problem demonstrates that such justifications for the problem of evil, such as the fact that suffering exists to improve the moral qualities of a person and thus serve the greater good, are unconvincing. After all, animals are innocent, defenseless, immoral, but sentient beings.
It should also be said that the existence of evil forces people to live in fear, which is absolutely unnecessary. As mentioned above, evil is created so that a person becomes morally more perfect. However, if we define this perfection as the absence of a person’s motives to commit sin, then the conclusion suggests itself. The reduction of evil will initially make a person morally more perfect since people will not know what it is. Respectively, they will not have ideas about non-good deeds.
To sum up, the theodicy is quite contradictory in this case. The fact is that a person intentionally commits the murder of animals, realizing at the same time that they feel pain and are conscious. This act has nothing to do with a person becoming morally more perfect. The absence of evil would initially lead to the absence of such deaths of innocent animals or people.