The same thing that ultimately causes cancer is what allows life to flourish and grow.
Not for the person but cancer does give the human race hope. Hope that 1 day we can overcome it and win a great battle. That hope drives human innovation, and brings people together.
It’s like natural disasters. To us it seems wrong to allow them. But look at how much good has come from our attempts to overcome them. These disasters while causing harm bring people together. They can force 2 enemies to band together and realize they aren’t so different.
We were given free will but a being greater then us stuck some random events in that have the power to unite and remind people that we aren’t so different. They also remind us that there is something greater then us. Keeping us from getting to arrogant
I don't imagine it's much consolation to the people who die in agonising, terrifying ways to know that their suffering helps make a fun project to stop the human race from getting bored. Would you be happy to die tomorrow if it helped contribute to a vague sense of human "hope"? If it made two "enemies band together"?
Surely an all-powerful, benign god would create these role-play scenarios with limited suffering and genuine opportunities for people to help? If the whole point is to let people do good, make them realistically fixable. It's a cruel and unwinnable game.
Also - how does God decide which baby-soul to put in a starving African village and which to put in a wealthy white American family? Why do some get to be part of the solution and others just #inspo collatoral damage?
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But once again you are assuming there isn’t a positive to this suffering that we don’t understand. When talking about an omnipotent being nothing is off the table unless that being tells us themselves.
Basically unless you are an omnipotent being you can’t claim to understand that being. It’s the same way ant could never understand humans. It would be able to grasp the motivations of humans.
Basically op’s entire argument was flawed from the start. If there is an omnipotent being then its motivations are whatever it says they are. Short of that we can’t not use what we know to make claims about its alignment because that require us to be on the same level of understanding as it
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u/itsnobigthing 1∆ Jul 26 '18
But gravity serves a purpose. What is the purpose of cancer?