One need not, of course, advance a principle involving some specific value of \(T\). One could, instead, make the existential claim that there is some level \(T\) such that, first, it is a wrongmaking property of an action to cause the amount of evil of type \(K\) to dip below level \(T\), and, second, that if an omnipotent and omniscient being had intervened to prevent the rape and murder of Sue, that would, in the absence of some compensating action, have caused the amount of evil of type \(K\) to dip below level \(T\). But surely no one knows, or even has any reason for believing, that this is the case.