If God exists, why did he create life? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, January 04, 2011, 07:51 (4854 days ago) @ dhw


> Even if I were to accept (though I don't) that the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami which killed over 230,000 people and devastated communities and towns over a vast area was actually necessary for the survival of the human race, and that the ghosts (I speak figuratively) of the once flourishing Pompeii should be comforted by the fact that "a volcano creates earth and soil that will eventually provide habitable land", the point of my terrorist analogy was to focus on the mind of the perpetrator. 
> -During the 2004 Tsunami, there was a group of people, whose name I do not recall, that survived the tsunami without the loss of a single life in their tribe because they heeded the warnings and acted accordingly. The same could almost certainly said of survivors of the Pompeii volcano, the residents of New Orleans, and the survivors of other natural disasters. You seem to have made the assumption that, and feel free to correct me if I am mistaken, that people are not responsible for their own lives, and that their failure to pay attention to the warnings represents a callous disregard for life on the part of a UI. Is the engineer that designs brakes for cars(which come standard with a warning system to tell you they are going bad) responsible for people who die because they fail to heed the warning and crash when their brakes fail? Did that engineer show a callous disregard, or even indifference to life? He knew the brakes would eventually fail, he built in a warning to notify the operators of the danger, and some might speculate that when people die because of his brakes, despite the fact that they ignored the warning, he might feel remorse or regret at their deaths. Yet, in this example, we generally do not blame the engineer, we blame the individual. Why do you not hold people to the same standard in other aspects of their lives, choosing to instead blame the UI for their deaths when they fail to heed the warnings?-Just like the engineer, there was no innate need for any form of UI to put any form of warning system in any of its creations. Had there been no warning signs, I could accept your reasoning that it is perhaps indifferent, or has a callous disregard for life. However, as things are, I do hold people responsible for their own actions and decisions, or lack thereof.-To answer your last question, there is no reason not to be indifferent to a UI, if one exists, other than simple gratitude for every breath you draw, every sunset you witness, and every twinge in your guts when you feel the love of someone you care about. In general, I find that people like to take credit for the good in their life, and avoid all responsibility for the bad.