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I think you've misunderstood. It depends where the bar is set. Obviously I can't design a whole world for you here, but as examples, injuries that caused a lot of pain and disability for months would still exist, but they would heal. Plenty of reason to avoid whatever caused it, surely? A condition that caused severe pain with no hope of remission followed by death, no.
See above about "nothing truly bad". Being anxious about possibilities teaches us to plan to avoid them.
No more than they are now. You're assuming you are the same but some external influence controls you. I'm sure you wouldn't torture an an innocent person for fun but some people would. Neither of you is controlled, you are both behaving according to your nature. Everyone would be like you, that's all.
The question of our bodies is different. I imagine some adjustments would be necessary to eliminate certain "really bad" diseases and so on. They wouldn't be externally controlled though.
You mean that art that is inspired by tragedy wouldn't exist? That's a small price to pay to get rid of the tragedy.
Our propensity to do "bad" things would be reduced. Which things are bad is a different matter and would be determined by the creator.
This raises something I hadn't considered, suicide. I believe we have the right to end our lives if we choose, by whatever method we choose. Would that still apply? To your question, I don't think giving us total immunity from the results of our actions is a good thing. Hopefully our enhanced intelligence would avoid much of this and the reduction in bad treatment by others would help too. I guess if you want to harm yourself you would allowed to, and suffer the consequences. This is a better world not a perfect one.
Not at all. A couple of years ago I was diagnosed with bladder cancer (now totally in remission). The symptoms involved no pain, but prompted me to go the my doctor.
See my answer above concerning control.
I think I've covered this. No we would have emotions as appropriate, not feel great all the time. It wouldn't be a full emotional range, because it would limit things like irrational fear, clinical depression and pathological hatred. Do you really want those things? There would be plenty of emotion left.
Let me sum up by saying that I'm mostly not introducing anything new. Good people already exist, it's not impossible. Likewise intelligent people and healthy people.
I appreciate what you're saying. And you ARE making it better. But these things aren't going to prevent people from being angry with God. Any death, any illness, any suffering, any unfairness at all and some people will complain. And certainly if God is forcing people to behave in a certain way, there's no way everyone is going to agree about what those things should be. Sure, God waving its magical wand and, poof, no murder would be good. But it would never be good enough.
I'm swinging for the fences. I'm looking for an omni-benevolent deity. And I think I found it. But just as your approach doesn't require perfection, neither does mine. All that's needed are good reasons for things to be the way they are. I think those reasons exist and I understand them. There's a lot of peace of mind that comes along with that, as well as awe, and wonder. There's also pleasure that comes from figuring it out. ( Granted it will be a huge dissapointment if I die and find out I was completely wrong. )
But as I have mentioned in the past, it could be that the world you are describing does exist somewhere. And maybe it is better than what we have here. And maybe there are many many different worlds, some much better, some much worse. In the world where we exist, there is an opportunity to make sense of it all. And I guess I'm wondering if that would be more difficult if suffering and hardship was decreased? If relief and pleasure comes from "figuring it out", is there diminishing returns on reducing evil?
And I also wonder, what if all those worlds, from the much much better, all the way to the much much worse, are omni-benevolent in the same way? Could the same solution, the same "figuring it out" work in all those worlds? If so, God is certainly omni-benevolent! It doesn't matter how great, or how poor, each of these possible worlds is good? That would be a pretty big wow, for me.
Sure it's frustrating that people are suffering and they don't know how the peices fit together. People have a right to be angry. And yes, I know, God could wave its magic wand and implant the understanding into each person, poof. But would that be as satisfying? And yes, God could have written all the details in a holy-book somewhere, in plain language, but that also would not be as satisfying. And I honestly think people would reject it. It would be too perfect, or too simple, or too complex, or too something-or-other. It seems to me the best way, and maybe the only way, is for people to figure it out in their own way and in their own time. Not that hints and help should be discouraged. But, abra-ca-dabra, everyone gets it, is probably not a good idea either.