If you had the power to create a world, is this what you would have done?
I mean, really. Who would have come up with the idea of fleas in order to make animals miserable? Who would have invented cockroaches? Who would have tossed STDs into the mix to have to make us occasionally pay for one of our too few pleasures?
And another thing. Would you come up with the idea of putting humans on the top of the chain? I, for one, would have picked dolphins or elephants. (I thought of putting cats in the running, but they have too much of a “Go away until I need you.” attitude.)
Then there’s the political world. Would you have numbed the minds of voters to where they’d spend their entire lives screwing themselves? For whatever reason, there must have been just a pinch of masochism thrown into that recipe. And as for political ideology in general, a sadist must have been hired to come up with most of it.
I know that there are countless things about this world that suck, and that each of us would have designed/created differently. Nonetheless, however we and our planet came to be, the flaws reek of (some intentional?/unintentional?) maliciousness.
Could any one of us have done a better job? Beats me.
P.S. Full disclosure. I’m a devout agnostic who would probably have fucked up our existence far, far worse than whoever/whatever caused us to be.
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The only thing that matters in this eternal universe is your story.
Make it a good one.
Not something like this:
Or worse, this:
How long do you think the airline industry would last?
Better yet, if 43,000 children were killed every year in crashes of Cessna Citations, how many more Citations would be allowed to be sold?
The current understanding of the 2A is beyond absurd, and Warren Burger said it right;
It may have been better to have been born on version 2.0.
The believers will simply tell you that we don't understand the reasons for what HE does. Perhaps the great male being invented the world for the fleas, ticks, leeches and viruses and the other animals are just there to provide them free room and board. There are round-bouts three two and a half million species of life on Earth, it is pretty damn egocentric to believe it was made for one. Makes me wonder if the fleas have their own religions. 
