When seeking answers to the purpose of suffering in life, we need to understand how we live in a natural system of laws. Similar to the laws of gravity, electromagnetic forces, there are laws that govern everything that happens with our thoughts, desires, and the circumstances we are born and grow up into.
The laws are all aimed at pushing us to evolve.
There is always a fusion of the evolutionary pressure and our free choice. Do we—humanity as a collective entity—make enough conscious efforts to move forward? To the extent that we lag behind, nature has to push us forward, resulting in different forms of suffering.
But why do innocent people have to die?
We are all totally interconnected, this is our reality for better or for worse. In the body, when one body part gets hurt, the whole body feels the pain, impairing the state of the whole system.
The same thing happens in humanity. Seemingly there are criminals who should receive punishment and others are punished instead, but this is how integral livin