why do bad things happen to good people?

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JNathanK
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23 Nov 2010, 1:34 pm

auntblabby wrote:

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ruveyn wrote:

Why do good things happen to bad people?

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Because a lot of bad people are stronger and smarter than a lot of good people. In general, the world is run by mostly people who are neither good nor bad but act in their own interests whatever that requires.

and if what they believe is required happens to be bad for somebody else, then what does that make the people who performed said actions?

Haha, good point. God, I really hate these dispassionate views on life I've been reading in here. "We are meat robots. Life is meaningless. We are pieces of protoplasm. compute compute"

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23 Nov 2010, 2:07 pm

I think you are conflating objectivity with dispassion.

Looking at the world objectively, I can take the view that "bad" things happen without any moral direction. If you are on a plane and it crashes, the causes of that crash are not dependent upon some aggregation of goodness and badness on the part of the passengers and crew. A pathogen does not check your moral standing before infecting you.

But that does not mean that I am dispassionate. I care for the sick, regardless of how they became sick, and regardless of their morality.

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