Could God have created a better world than the one we're in now and Bob Brozman

This post is associated with the previous post. I recommend you read the first part of the previous post before you get into reading this post.

There's a very nice thought experiment that Robert Adams came up with which goes like this;
Imagine if there was a couple that loved handicapped children immensely. Now say this couple took a drug so that they could conceive a child which was handicapped. Then they gave this child all the love and the care in the world. The question that arises now is have the parents wronged the child? And in general have the parents done wrong? Intuitively the first thing i thought of was no they haven't. Maybe because the capability of the parents to love a handicapped child exceeds that of their capability to love a normal child. Then i believe if you are to truly to accept or reject any premises or conclusions of an argument, do so by trying to imagine yourself as being the party that is on the receiving/giving end of the premise/conclusion. Which basically means i imagine what if i was that handicapped child. I hate being sick, or injured in anyway because it diminishes my potential ability to do things the best that i can. It limits my capabilities to be retarded in anyway. So i thought definitely my parents would have wronged me if i had been handicapped. But the problem is still not adequately answered. Here's the crux explained by Adams. He says no because there are 2 possible beings in this case. Lets say there are 2 possible beings, normal child Norman and handicapped child Harry. Its important to understand that Harry and Norman are completely distinct and different from each other. So if the parents took the drug and they got Harry, Harry would not have been wronged. For if they didn't consume the drug then they would have had Norman. However lets say they did have a normal child Norman and if after 5 years they decided, well actually we would like our child to be handicapped. Then they turn the child upside down and drop him on his head a few times so as to make him retarded. In this case the child has clearly been wronged. This analogy can futher be extended into our current world. Its easy for us to think of a better world than the one we're in. For instance i think it would be better if we lived in a world where tigers were vegetarian to save the cruel torment that deers are victims of and women spent less time complaining on their looks. However it doesn't make sense to complain about there being no better world because there could be infinitely possible better worlds. The question you should ask yourself is, has God harmed me by creating me? No i dont think so. By giving me existence God has done something good for me. If God made a better world than this one, it would entail that God would have made a world that doesn't include us. Has God harmed those other better worlds by not creating them? No because they are only possible worlds and God could only possibly harm them, but not actually do so.


Ok anyone wanna explain to me how i can embed a youtube video straight onto my blog please? Anyway Bob Brozman is one of the greatest musicians of our time whome i would pay anything to go and watch live. He loves indian music, blues and plays solely with his heart and ears. Definitely should check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUv5tPXIrrg&feature=related