why do bad things happen to good people?

Answer 1

If bad things never happened, how would you know the good things are good? What would you compare / contrast them with?

Answer 2

Because stuff happens. The simplest explanation is usually the right one. There is no force in the universe that rewards you when you're good and punishes you when you're bad. Babies are born deformed or with a disease because of an error in the genetic coding sequence, not because they were bad in the past life. If things were not random, we could not have quantum indeterminacy. Without quantum indeterminacy, we could not have the physical universe we find ourselves in. Without the universe, we would not exist. This is how things evolve, and ultimately there is a beautiful and good purpose to creation. The problem arises when trying to assign intelligence to creation, to look for reasons. There are no reasons. It doesn't work like that. Creation evolves intelligence, not the other way around. The only question that is reasonable to ponder is why is there something instead of nothing.

Answer 3

This is basically a question my husband asked me right after he was diagnosed with cancer, and one I had to answer just about three time a week, about 7 days before he passed he asked me the question one more time his was "why me?

Why me is basically the same question just shortened. This time when I answered him the same way as always with, " Why not you?" he understood what I had meant over the last 8 months.

If the bad things didn't happen to you then it would happen to someone else, and what in life makes you better than them.

I hurt everyday since my husbands death but not once have I said Why are bad things happening to me? just because I grieve doesn't mean I can't be at peace with my self knowing I don't wish this grief on someone else.

Answer 4

Two people are told that they would receive $x if they do a certain thing. Who is good and who is bad?

What test is there if life held no uncertainty and a man loans x amount of dollars and knows he will get x amount back? Is this man good when the person suffering is an innocent man but cannot prove of his ability to repay?

Is not the man who helps without any expectations of being repaid the better man than the one who loans with mercernary eyes?

When the flesh decreases, the spirit increases.

Answer 5

Bad things happen to good people for two reasons:
1) They are more trusting than the rest of, this makes them good but vulnerable to bad things.
2) They tend to put themselves into helping situations where they might intervene in a confrontation or otherwise put themselves in harms way for the best reasons which again makes them good but more likely to get nailed.
Better to be a little less good and stay healthy!

Answer 6

It is not necessarily true that bad things happen to good people. It is so assumed, because when bad things happen to good people, it's more often taken notice of than the other way around.

Answer 7

Bad things do happen to good and bad people. However, good person is prone to bad things in comparison to the bad. The reason is good person is lacking in acumen to handle problem, especially when the heart is overwhelming the head in wrong decision. Therefore, good person will have less of the bad things when there is a change of heart.

Answer 8

Because life is random, there is no such thing as fate or pre-ordained plan, bad things happen to ALL people because of coincidence, Murphy's Law, and random acts of nature and people. When the tectonic plates crash into each other and cause human calamities, are they worried about who's good and bad? Don't make me laugh. To think that good people are protected or somehow immune to the laws of nature is not logical or rational. If you start believing in fate and pre-ordained plans, then you're reverted to superstitious CAVE MAN logic....don't do it. Just kidding, do and believe what you want.

Answer 9

"Good people" is a matter of opinion. Most criminals think they are good people who simply got mixed up or were victims of society. Alternately, many people who are considered "good people" by the community are reaming choir boys in the vestry.

"Bad things" is also a matter of opinion. I thought my ex-boyfriend breaking up with me was ruinous, but it ended up that I went from chasing a weenie to loving a winner because of his setting me free.

Even death and pain have flip sides sometimes. What is a "bad thing" to the lion (the wildebeest getting away and the lion missing his meal and possibly starving) is a "good thing" to the wildebeest, and vice-versa. The lion is NOT the bad guy, nor is the herbivore a good guy. Stop seeing things in moralistic black-and-white!

Answer 10

I think bad things happen to all people. Also I think good things happen to all people. No one is exempt from either of these two things. That is life.