Why does God allow bad things and suffering?

@miccee said: If all of the causes of our decision were things over which we had no conscious control, then that is not free will, that is a case of our will being determined by events.

A brain is essentially a very complex organic computer.

And Artificial Intelligence does in fact have decision making capacity. You don't deal with what we have; you follow your own preferred interpretation of conscious experience even though you can't explain how it works.

We're legally accountable, as there are consequences for our actions. But not morally culpable, as any completed action was an inevitable one.

It won't, because whatever I do is the only thing that I could have done. But I can recognise that whatever I inevitably do is going to be part of the inevitable outcome.

novastar6 said: A lot of horrible things boil down to free will. The public in Venezuela is starving, the government that oversees them know they're starving, and have all the means and resources to end it, but they choose not to, why? Because they like the power of deciding who lives and who dies. In the Congo, women are raped and killed by both enemy soldiers and their own, they have no protection, their government will not help them, but there are many people that if they had the opportunity to, they would, and they would hold every rapist accountable and throw them all in prison. Just as people choose to help those in need, others choose to only help themselves, if all the latter became the former, how much suffering would still remain in the world? So people who ask why God doesn't just fix all the problems, are basically asking why didn't God just make us all a bunch of robots so nobody could be capable of doing anything evil? But nobody's really going to suggest they'd rather be a robot with no will of their own. With the freedom to think and do for yourself comes a price, most people just don't want to pay it and take responsibility when they see something wrong.