Without disrespecting you, I'd rather not take this thread to debate the suffering issue. I'm not ducking it, but my response would take into account that:
(1) there are three kinds of life and three kinds of death; that
(2) we are not dogs, but can be taught abstractly; that
(3) the whole world is already condemned; and that
(4) like Melcizedec, God is first above all holy (righteous) and after that merciful (God of peace) to humans that have heard the gospel and believed.
This is pretty close; But I'd say above all;
Tell them I AM sent you...
The only thing I disagree with in that statement is that I see it as two kinds of life and two kinds of death.
Type one: the body, including the software that runs on the computer called the brain. This software in humans is called a soul. In animals it is the equivalent of artificial intelligence and called “instinct”.
Type two: The spirit. And the spirit is what is destroyed at the second death, if that is one’s fate.