 The first key distinction is concerned with the kinds of evil—with what evil is or consists in, and thus with where and how it manifests. Again, the distinction is not exclusive: someone might hold that there is both metaphysical evil and empirical evil, and that the latter is typically a manifestation of metaphysical evil. Someone else, however, might hold that there is no such thing as metaphysical evil, and that all evils can be accounted for at the empirical, causal level.