Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”

[Mudhammam]

What if ebola went super-viral, fully-airborne, and it was determined that the only way to eradicate it was to completely isolate every community with cases? And in each community, each block with a case was isolated, and in each block, each building with a case was isolated, and so on?

This would probably mean the death of those closest to victims, but could save the human species from as many as 3 billion deaths. Are you sure that isolating the victims would be wrong, even though it is essentially murder?

Who/what and why are you charging responsible for the murders of the victims: the Ebola virus, the afflicted who fail to take it upon themselves to see that the appropriate precautions for minimizing the spread of the disease to those unaffected are enforced, or those mandating isolation so as to save the rest of the population?

There is certainly the possibility that all three parties will bear a measure of blame for whatever tragic consequences result. Given that we are not omnipotent beings, it's conceivable that in rare instances a necessary evil must be admitted because it is the lesser of all other present alternatives.