 The second main distinction has to do with the origins of evil, and tracks the differences between the three camps mentioned above. The first option here is to say that a specific evil arises entirely from natural phenomena for which no one is responsible. In the case of the man and his horse, it is common to think that their metaphysical finitude and incapacities, as well as the cancerous tumor and the canine pain, are “natural” in this way: they seem to be based in facts about the natures, events, and causal laws involved.