why do bad things happen?
This has long been a question that people of asked through the ages of each other and of religions, along with it's corollary "why does God allow bad things to happen?", and most people never get a satisfactory answer
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I never really give it too much thought. I'm not religious by nature and never have been, but for me, it's always seemed sort of a simple question to answer: Balance.
We only have a word for light because it has an opposite: dark. The mind wouldn't be able to comprehend 'light' conceptually if dark didn't exist. The same goes for good and bad. Magnets have polarity. Everything that exists must have an equal opposite. That's just the way the world was built. Look at the human body alone: it's am mirror image of itself divided down the middle. Whether that has to do with god or not, that's for each individual to decide for themselves, but I think it's a law of nature, at the very least.
How would we understand and appreciate "good", if there was no "bad"? The human mind wouldn't be able to process it as a concept. That's my thought on the matter, at least. Everyone has their own opinions, and that, to me, definitely falls on the "good" side of the spectrum.
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Balance is another good answer; I can definitely see that. My husband might say "cycle" or "circle" which has its own aspect of balance.
"Good" and "bad", as well as "wrong" and "right", are human concepts; animals don't seem bothered by these issues. Our brains have developed these to explain choices we make.
Thanks for sharing your ideas!
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