The Horror, the Horror
Consider now another case. I am driving on the highway and my tire blows up. How irritating, I think. I stop on the shoulder, call my insurance company, wait, watch them put on a spare, drive to a mechanic who then patches up the tire and puts it back on. The entire adventure takes 3 hours out of my life and costs me $20. Who is responsible for this affront? In the case of Sue we tried to find deep cosmic significance of this tragedy. But will I have enough sympathy from the philosophers to come to my aid in figuring out why this small misfortune happened to me? Just because it is trivial does not change its nature as a physical evil. Well, once again, we take refuge in natural laws and, in particular, the law of entropy. “Nothing,” my uncle is fond of saying, “happens by itself.” Things break, wear down, etc. I should expect troublesome annoyances along the way. And it was valuable for God to put us in a naturally deteriorating world. Etc.