 Privation Theory thus reduces pressure on monotheism: evil is not a being but rather an absence, and so God did not create it. Moreover, evil is the kind of absence that is not a function of the essential natures of things, and so God cannot be faulted for creating things that are essentially evil. Failing to accomplish the end set out by one’s nature—failing to be the way one ought to be—is a privation, however, and so it is evil.