[kosta50]

We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?"

Being born is winning a lottery of millions to one odds. But before you can call yourself 'privileged' you have to win another lottery lest you are a bastard or orphan, or a child of an abusive alcoholic father, or drug-addicited mother, the countless face on charitable posters, living in the gutters Kolkata (Culcutta) or São Paulo, etc. and probably would have been better off if you were never born.

What exact purpose is served by starving children in God's plan, D?

[James C. Bennett]

Indeed.

This raises another question, asked earlier:

What is the value of suffering? Does it count only when gods suffer?

What did David’s child suffer for? How does it fit into the the concept of “perfect justice”?