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So basically you have invented a god that knew that childhood cancer would be a thing but let's it happen because he thinks helping is worse than that.
I don't know about you but I am a parent and wouldn't sit there while my kid is dying for fear that I would corrupt their natural self.
The only excuse for God is it doesn't exist.
Well, now we're stepping into more specific considerations.
For a number of reasons, I think the notion of an always existing deity to be less compelling than an eventually developing deity like put forward by the Orphics.
When we look at our own universe, random existence through a process of self-organizing complexity gave rise to intelligence and even the creation of our own rudimentary universes.
Does that process end with us? Should we assume it to be exclusive to us?
And if there were to be a process like that taking place after us, would a creator recreating earlier humans be inherently unethical?
As an example - let's say someone in the far future wanted to bring back humanity after it went extinct, and did so by creating a universe wherein after death those recreated humans could continue on in their own relative paradise (a configuration the originals might not have even had).
Would it be more ethical in that scenario to recreate only the rich, healthy, and privileged humans to live a life of happiness and then a life of relative paradise thereafter too? Or would it be more fair to recreate humanity as accurately as possible, cancer and all, so that even the humans dealt a crappy hand in life would be represented in its perpetuity and be entitled to the rewards now possible with their recreation by an intelligent entity?
Would you, as a parent, only want your luckiest child to be entitled to the possibility of their own relative paradise, or would you want the less fortunate children to also be entitled to that too?