According to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, "this is the best of all possible worlds." How could the Las Vegas massacre occur in such a world?
My question takes on the following form: Do we live in a world of evidentiary evil or a world of aporetic evil? I want to live in this world whether it be the best of all possible worlds or some world in between. Nonetheless, to live in a world where there does not appear to be any rhyme or reason; where things occur arbitrarily or haphazardly or randomly; where the "right" and the "left" may be considered as the same side of one coin; where good, bad, and indifferent stand as one option, where no one can be sure whether he or she will live out the day--this does not reinforce my faith in humankind; neither does it support my faith in the Divine Providence.
Notwithstanding, I daresay there is One Divine Preceptor, who writes out each and every one's destiny as an inscription in the Book of Life. It is the human being's free will, in my understanding, that may create, may not create, or creates the cognitive dissonance in the meaning of "the best of all possible worlds."
When I listen to my senses; when I think logically, rationally, and sensibly; when I feel my intuition is accurate, credible, reliable; when my visceral reaction takes me to a place where I feel comfortable; when I contend with conviction--this is world that live in can only be the best of all possible worlds because it is the world in which I live in the present, the only world I have ever lived in, and the world I will probably live in the future
What do you think?