Human emotional constructs.

Always remember to a religious zealots it is always god(s) will!

That is their patent response to anything that happens to them, their families, their tribe(s), their lands, cultures, and their religious beliefs!

"You want, if possible - and there is no more insane "if possible" - to abolish suffering. And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it - that is no goal, that seems to us an end, a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible - that makes his destruction desirable. The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far?" Nietzsche

Life is random, good things happen and shit things happen. C'est la vie

A fourth response:

There’s no such thing as evil. What we perceive as evil is just the workings of nature. Things happen for reasons, but those reasons might be over our heads. The life or death of a single organism is of little significance.

There is no afterlife. Time is an illusion. We are in heaven right now. The sense of existence as a separate individual in a body is an illusion. We are not our bodies. Our true essence in Ultimate Reality is conscious awareness itself.

In my opinion, evil is solely human activity, suffering is just part of nature and life on planet earth.

Best try to avoid it.

When I first saw the headline, I comically thought "I usually tell my ex I'll see her in court." But the. I saw you had a deeper intent.

The one thing I do to help prevent the spread of evil is speak up when I can to put a stop to it. I teach my child what the evil is and advise him to act in positive ways. There's always going to be some sort of suffering, treat everyone respectfully but stand up for whats truely right.

John Keats or John Hick? (Perhaps both...)

And there are those who say you're being punished for your own misdeeds . And there are those who say all bad is due to Satan .

Of the three, I would choose the second response. However, I would not say that suffering has a purpose. It's just part of life. Humans suffer. Other animals suffer. Without suffering, would we recognize joy?

Make sure I am not contributing to it.