I can remember a fairly common illustration used in the Kingdumb Hells to justify Jehovah allowing suffering. It had to do with a child that had a disease that a painful operation was necessary to treat the disease. It compares us suffering to that child.
Here are the holes in that argument. First, do we really have that type of disease where a terrible operation is the only cure? Will the operation even be of any lasting benefit, or is it designed solely to keep the child dependent on the drug companies for life? For many diseases, those operations are truly unnecessary, and often do more harm than good in the long run.
How would you feel, for instance, if you as a child had cancer, and "needed" a painful operation, got it, had to suffer for it for life with serious pain and handicap, only to learn that a 7-day course of a common tea would have cured that cancer permanently with no side effects? And, what if you find out that your parents knew it too but decided to put you through the operation anyway? I don't think you would be too pleased at what your parents did, especially if that tea was widely available and approved by the FDA! (At that, at the time you had the operation!)
If this argument is going to hold water, then the "disease" would have to be otherwise untreatable. And I believe that the "disease" that man is suffering could be permanently cured with a simple operation of regulationdectomy. Taking away the regulations that hold us back would allow the free market to solve our problems without permanently creating new ones. (Yes, there would be more pollution, which would be the raw materials for someone else to make money by making other products out of it). The stagnation that has resulted from crap education and crap jobs, along with the crap products that have resulted, would go. And with it, so would the crime and other problems that we suffer. No painful operation would be needed--that would be that tea.
I would like to have heard someone comment at the meeting at that point, that the disease could be cured with a vitamin or herb, or perhaps an exercise (or even a combination of a drug with one of the above). I know of no disease that needs a painful, debilitating operation to manage if the regulations would only be removed. Genetic diseases would disappear if a virus that corrects the problem would be custom made (which would die out once the disease is cured). Cancer can be hijacked to grow into normal tissue, or killed off by alkalizing the body. Heart disease and diabetes can also be cured (at least in countries without a FDA) with herbs. So, man's "disease" can also be cured without protracted suffering. And that argument does not hold water.