Moloch is also the thematic devil in my favorite essay on Slate Star Codex, which is kind of a modern theodicy replacing the question of "Why does an omnipotent

Moloch is also the thematic devil in my favorite essay on Slate Star Codex, which is kind of a modern theodicy replacing the question of "Why does an omnipotent God allow bad things to happen?" with "Why do we, as thinking, feeling beings allow bad systems to persist?" Joseph Vogl asked this same question about why "efficient" markets allow inefficient ouctomes in his book Oikodicy. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2015/08/the-end-of-an-illusion.html https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2015/08/the-end-of-an...