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| - Why is there pain and suffering in the world? Mother Teresa said, “Suffering is a gift of God.” Well, it may be true that suffering tends to build character and makes a person emotionally stronger, but it can also sometimes result in bitterness and regret and may push the weaker person into criminality. However, in most cases, most people strive and would prefer to do without it, especially the extreme forms of it.
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| - Why is there pain and suffering in the world? Mother Teresa said, “Suffering is a gift of God.” Well, it may be true that suffering tends to build character and makes a person emotionally stronger, but it can also sometimes result in bitterness and regret and may push the weaker person into criminality. However, in most cases, most people strive and would prefer to do without it, especially the extreme forms of it. So why is there so much pain and suffering? You only need to watch the news to hear and see the way criminals and others continue in ever increasing numbers to kill, rape, violate and cause misery and destruction to others. Most of the time this is done because of a state of transient madness or anger or to revenge a perceived wrong, or to gain material gain or for some other skewed reason; but in most cases the wrong doer offers a reason for the violation. The most interesting non-spiritual reason offered is this; the human race like most other living organisms is subject to the scientific rule of "survival of the fittest ". This terms was first used by British philosopher Herbert Spencer (who coined the term) in 1864 when referring to the work of Charles Darwin , the world renowned English naturalist. Spencer, in his "Principles of Biology" drew parallels between his own economic theories and Darwin's biological ones, writing "This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."
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