(March 26, 2013 at 8:26 am)Faith No More Wrote:(March 25, 2013 at 11:01 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Sure you can focus on people not doing well in facing adversity, but, perhaps the gems that do well, are worth the tribulations and suffering.
I think what you are saying here is that for those who do well in the face of adversity, the suffering caused by that adversity is worth it, correct? What about when that adversity comes at the expense of others? For example, I think I am a better person for having gone through the adversity in my life, but much of my adversity came from the death of others. Would you still say that is worth it in that type of situation?
Well if we are measuring just one person vs others, I am not sure what to make of that. But I look at the whole system. The whole system gives diverse experience and opportunity. It gives all sorts of opportunity of praise and free-choice. It gives opportunity of sacrifice and resilience. It maybe the children dying is not worth praise earned by someone through them dying, but that if God interfered and saved children while would not save adults, the system becomes weird and corrupted. So somethings maybe a byproduct of the overall goal of the system, but, we can't measure them individual to individual. So I say we have to look at the whole system. Is the system as it is worthy if the purpose is to enable earning praise and at the end all humans will be at peace? The negation of the statement would be: The system is not worthy as it is if the purpose is to enable earning praise and the end all humans will be at peace.
Which one seems true?