Thread:Cranapps/@comment-1672596-20180501042357/@comment-1672596-20190110155558

To be fair, Palpatine didn't blow up the entire galaxy even when everyone was disobedient to him, and the narrative treats him as evil. And Maleficent didn't even kill her minions for foolishly checking cradles well after their target outgrew them, and she's evil incarnate, so I'm not sure I'd use that as a reason. And besides, Infinite from Sonic Forces at one point implies he's perfectly willing to allow for and even engineer rebellions against himself and Eggman for the sole purpose of crushing them and whatever hopes they had (in other words, deliberately allowing their subjects to use free will against them), so God granting free will doesn't exactly betray that idea, especially given that his omniscience renders free will inherently meaningless in the end, anyway. If anything, I see God's granting us free will as being the same motivation Infinite had for letting his enemies rebel instead of taking them out before they even became a threat, or heck, Palpatine leaking the Death Star II plans to the Rebels in Return of the Jedi or the Patriots instigating Dead Cell's actions in MGS2 (it certainly had nothing to do with love. Actually, if anything, if God loved us, he wouldn't give us free will at all.).