Brigham Young on Understanding Evil
Is there an evil thing upon the earth that he (The Lord) does not fully understand? There is not…. The Lord understands the evil and the good; why should we not likewise understand them? We should. Why? To know how to choose the good and refuse the evil; which we cannot do, unless we understand the evil as well as the good. I do not wish to convey the idea that it is necessary to commit evil in order to obtain this knowledge. (Brigham Young – Journal of Discourses, 9:242-243.)