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face=Arial>From: Akiva Miller via Avodah <avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR>I
don't know if I've gone off topic or not. I guess my point has been<BR>merely to
illustrate that there's little or no difference between a world<BR>where there
are no Nazis, and a world where there are no birth defects.<BR><BR>Akiva
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<DIV>I don't know how you can say that. Admittedly, the Creator apparently
wanted a world in which there are both Nazis /and/ birth defects, since that's
the world He created. But there is a HUGE difference between the two --
between the pain caused by evil people through their own free will, and the
suffering that occurs as the result of disease and other natural
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<DIV>One thought experiment will illustrate the difference. Imagine a
mother whose child dies as the result of a birth defect. Let's even say
the child dies after a period of pain and suffering. Now imagine another
mother whose child dies because a Nazi snatched the child from her arms and
killed the child in some sadistic way, in front of the mother's eyes. Both
mothers suffer terrible pain and grief. But even if both children "only"
suffered the same amount of pain before dying, you can see that there would be
a huge difference between a world in which no disease would ever kill a
child and a world in which no Nazi would ever kill a child.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>--Toby
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