Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for December 13, 2020
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Transcript:
God, why do bad things happen to good people? And why is there something and not nothing? Actually, the second question kind of answers the first. We made the universe so it would evolve entities like us, but in greater number. We figured if we had enough thinkers, eventually someone would solve the why is their suffering question and tell us the answer. So how's that coming? Good? Bad? Come on, man! It's hell up here!
“Why” implies intent. Why did you go to the store? You intended to buy something.
Sometimes there is no “why”, and the proper question is “how”.