Reply To: why were reshaim created?

Laskern, thank you for the mussar tidbits. Does it pertain to the discussion?

Haleivi, “If Hashem would not create those people whom He knows will turn out bad, then we would have a world in which there is no active Bechira.”
What are you talking about? A tzaddik’s bechira is not dependent on whether there are reshaim in the world or not.

“As for the Nahama Dikisufa, I don’t see any contradiction there. What you do get is deserved and well received and what you don’t get, for lack of accomplishment, is embarrassing.”
Excellent. Now if the point was to avoid embarrassment, it seems like a failure, no?