Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?

[Catholic_Lady]

I presume He has a good reason for allowing the natural world to take its course as it may. Sometimes good comes of that, sometimes bad comes of that. I presume overall the net good is greater, in the grand scheme of things.

There's that 'net good' comment again . . .

So it's okay for these awful things to happen if it leads to a 'net good'?

I don't know what you mean by "it's ok". Tragedies are always a horrible thing, and never ok things. I certainly don't think what happened to me was ok. 

But we don't know what the long term consequences would be, both in this world and in the next, eternal one, if this world were one where God always stepped in to prevent anything and everything that would cause us suffering. I assume things would overall somehow not work out very well, otherwise He would do it.

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Again, I'd say it depends. Killing off all the Indians certainly wasn't detrimental to the settlers.

So you think that groups of people murdering each other and taking each others stuff maximizes well being? By the way Killing Indians and taking their land only led to war and more killing, it did not maximize well being for either side, eventually it had to be handled through treaty.

I think certain murders can maximize well being for certain people without negatively effecting the large scale society. But let's assume that it always does. Why should I care about the well being of people I don't know and don't care about?

(again, this is all devil's advocate. even if I didn't believe in God I would still care simply because of empathy because I'm not a sociopath)