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in fear and conformity. I wouldn't have blamed you at all if you'd spoken your mind about how you felt...it would have been very hard not to. I'm not an atheist, but I just don't understand situations like that, I don't think any loving god makes things like that happen. Or any dark 'force of evil' either. I think of it in terms of physics; when our bodies are broken or damaged beyond repair, then our soul has to leave because it can't live in that broken body anymore. I don't think the universe means to kill people or other beings; I do sometimes feel this is a kind of purgatory, because if I were a god planning a universe, to come up with the idea that 'hey, let's make a planet on which everything that lives there has to kill and eat other things to survive, there is no way around it', well, that just seems like a bad idea, one that would send me back to the drawing board. But so it goes in the physical world.