Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?

[nec209]

On 11/29/2023 at 10:27 PM, Peterkin said:

Because evolution finds an ecological niche for every possible kind of life-form. That includes predators, parasites and pathogens. A huge amount of scope for eating other life-forms, and for developing aggression, greed and ways to satisfy both.

 

Also is there also some medical problems that are just really cruel and terrible?  I can think of parkinson's disease or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Also dementia and alzheimer's seem to be suffering.

3 hours ago, martillo said:

Too much diseases, calamities, catastrophes and tragedies. Seems the Universe is not well "tunned" for an ideal kind of life. We live as we can...

So is the sun?

You can’t look at the sun it is bad for your eyes, you need sunglasses, you can get a sun burn and very much so people when it is very hot and in hot countries can get really bad sub burns, sun seems way too strong, sun UV is bad for you as you can get cancer, The weather on earth is not the best as people complain of heat waves or it too cold.  Well people get too hot if it is above 27C or 80F and people complain it too cold with out putting on a jacket and long pants when it gets below 18C nor 64F and people complain of bitter cold when it is 2C or  35F and some people have even worse intolerance.

It seems the planet is too alien for people and better planet would be better.

[martillo]

2 hours ago, nec209 said:

So is the sun?

You can’t look at the sun it is bad for your eyes, you need sunglasses, you can get a sun burn and very much so people when it is very hot and in hot countries can get really bad sub burns, sun seems way too strong, sun UV is bad for you as you can get cancer, The weather on earth is not the best as people complain of heat waves or it too cold.  Well people get too hot if it is above 27C or 80F and people complain it too cold with out putting on a jacket and long pants when it gets below 18C nor 64F and people complain of bitter cold when it is 2C or  35F and some people have even worse intolerance.

It seems the planet is too alien for people and better planet would be better.

Yes, another planet, other sun, without dangerous cosmic rays, no asteroids that could provoque massive extinctions, in other galaxy because this one is going to collide with the near Andromeda galaxy and so on. Would there be a really good place for people to live a really good life in the entire universe? I think not. May be in other universe and may be even with some change in the physics' laws, not this one.

Edited December 1, 2023 by martillo

[nec209]

What causes food intolerance and food poisoning? It seems food poisoning is more common in developing countries for some reason.

I guess other suffering is food intolerance and food poisoning as some people can get really bad food poisoning.

[Peterkin]

On 12/1/2023 at 12:00 PM, nec209 said:

It seems the planet is too alien for people and better planet would be better.

Or, you can adapt to the planet, as other species do. Nature is heartless; it does not tolerate the weak and defective. 

If you insist on keeping alive a surplus population far beyond their productive years, you have to adapt the planet to your own needs. That works for a few thousand years, and then the planet can bear no more human activity and dies.

Then you have to go look for another planet to alter.

There is none better for the life-forms of this one: we are the products of this planet, and probably can't live anywhere else without massive technological aid. Certainly we do not have the capacity at present to go anywhere else that's even remotely habitable.

[Sensei]

On 12/1/2023 at 4:22 PM, iNow said:

In addition to wars for water, that same drought problem will lead to crop failures at the base of the food chain. Hard to grow corn and wheat and soy etc. when it's not raining, so that further amplifies the valid probabilities you cite. 

..which will lead to an increase in food prices.. and poor people will have even more trouble buying them than they do now..

In 2022, after the attack on Ukraine, grain prices rose due to the blockade of Ukrainian exports (which is/was a significant global market participant in several areas, such as sunflower oil, 42% of global market share in 2019. It was the oil I used most often, every day before the war. Approximately 1L per month. Its price has doubled).

Farmers were "uberhappy"..

When everything "calmed down," prices fell to almost "normal" pre-war prices and.. farmers began to complain, go on strike, etc. etc.

What is a PITA for some (customers) is heaven for others (farmers, sellers, stock market investors, investment banks playing on commodity exchanges)..

 

Capitalism.