You mention both “local” and “cosmic” unfairness, but the body of the post appears to focus solely on the “cosmic”, to its detriment. The challenges of Dostoevsky (or Qureshi-Hurst, but I am not familiar with her work) are not about whether “cosmic” unfairness can have some rationale, but about this suffering person here—and for that person, notions of some “Divine Plan” (in whatever terms we may conceive of such) do not provide any relief. Religions that include belief in such things as angels or Divine incarnations face an even more stark problem from the lack of intervention; or rather, the lack of inconsistent intervention, by those spiritual powers.
Thanks for the comment—the reason I focus on cosmic unfairness here is because I addressed local unfairness in a previous post in the sequence—apologies this wasn’t clear, I’ve now added a hyperlink to clarify.
I don’t agree that the challenges of Dostoevsky etc are only about local unfairness though: as I say I think it’s typically a mixture of local and cosmic unfairness that are not clearly distinguished.
The ‘problem from the lack of intervention’ that you mention is much discussed by people in this context, so presumably they think it is relevant to the challenges they are considering, even if there is no easy solution.
You mention both “local” and “cosmic” unfairness, but the body of the post appears to focus solely on the “cosmic”, to its detriment. The challenges of Dostoevsky (or Qureshi-Hurst, but I am not familiar with her work) are not about whether “cosmic” unfairness can have some rationale, but about this suffering person here—and for that person, notions of some “Divine Plan” (in whatever terms we may conceive of such) do not provide any relief. Religions that include belief in such things as angels or Divine incarnations face an even more stark problem from the lack of intervention; or rather, the lack of inconsistent intervention, by those spiritual powers.
Thanks for the comment—the reason I focus on cosmic unfairness here is because I addressed local unfairness in a previous post in the sequence—apologies this wasn’t clear, I’ve now added a hyperlink to clarify.
I don’t agree that the challenges of Dostoevsky etc are only about local unfairness though: as I say I think it’s typically a mixture of local and cosmic unfairness that are not clearly distinguished.
The ‘problem from the lack of intervention’ that you mention is much discussed by people in this context, so presumably they think it is relevant to the challenges they are considering, even if there is no easy solution.