Why does God allow some people to commit reprehensible acts?

In reality, Lord Krishna does not want anyone to act sinfully. He even implores every living being, through their good conscience, to refrain from sinning, doing evil, and causing suffering to others.

However, when someone insists on doing wrong, the Supreme Lord gives them permission to fulfill their desires, but at their own risk. No one can do anything without the Lord's consent, but Krishna is so benevolent that when the embodied soul, conditioned by matter and illusory energy, persists in its pernicious desire, He allows it to act as it wishes, but at its own risk. Understand, they will have to suffer the consequences of their own sinful actions, and sooner or later endure the resulting suffering.

We must know that our thoughts, words, and actions produce good or bad effects, which lead to consequences that we will suffer at the end of our current existence, and certainly in our next life, in the form of joys or misfortunes, various difficulties, chronic illnesses, run-ins with the law, or multiple sufferings. No one can go against divine laws. What we have done will be done to us.

These are the risks and perils that God has emphasized, in the form of a warning.

What is the origin of the wickedness of certain demonic beings?

The starting point of human wickedness or cruelty, and the violence that drives it, is the passivity of human society in the face of the failure of leaders to respond to the crimes committed, or even to those who approve of them.

The natural progression of violence inevitably leads to war within human society, and the breeding of various animals, then the killing of these animals in slaughterhouses or in the open sea by trawlers which kill aquatic beings by the thousands, is the most terrible form of violence.

The consumption of animal flesh is absolutely immoral, since it involves an act contrary to morality and divine guidance, namely the killing of thousands of living beings. By killing these innocent living beings, man needlessly represses within himself the highest spiritual aptitude, which consists of having sympathy and pity for living creatures like himself, and by thus violating his own feelings, he becomes cruel.

This coldness of heart and the inaction of the vast majority of men in the face of this mass slaughter leads evil beings to cultivate a form of impunity, and thus to manifest their evil ideals through violence, hence wars, terrorism, murders, vandalism and clashes in cities, and abortions.

In reality, the cruel slaughter of countless innocent and defenseless animals must be considered a powerful causal factor in this wave of violence. If violence is so widespread in human society, it is due to the karmic consequences, the aftermath of the divine law of action-reaction, or law of cause and effect, due to the slaughter of millions of animals throughout the world. In the present age, we see that compassion has almost disappeared.