So if your 15 month is about to stick a fork into an electrical socket, same logic applies? How about if he is about to run in front of a bus? How about if he is about to drink down some ammonia? How about put his hand in a wood chipper? Sit back and let him learn from the pain?
The same logic does not apply for me as a human father, no.
When dealing with a God concept we get the neat logical tool of the supernatural. Many people abuse this tool and use it to mislead, I will not do that. You must concede that in any God concept a measure of the supernatural is going to be used in the argument. You may challenge the reasoning at any time.
What I will use is God's perspective before and after our finite lives: his supernatural age. I don't see why he would not just be able to reassemble us or bring us back from some sort of memory storage (like a hard drive with an Operating System on it). Death becomes very different logically when it isn't forever. A dead man can't learn, no, but the people who continue on can and that's worth mentioning.
From what I have seen, all human problems can be solved with our minds and it is when we abandon reason and our thinking ability that life's terrors can wash us away. We are stronger than we think. It's important for each human to grow mentally with each passing day because we have to be equiped for the next day which could bring anything.
In this framework it would be understandable for God to let things play out, even tragically. Maybe to give us something to remember before he takes us to the Next Step. There are patterns in history that we all see repeated. This community are refugees from a tragedy that came from an organization that ignored the past as a whole and more importantly ignored their past.
God could very well be waiting for the time when we stop repeating our mistakes. If the universe is supposed to be traveled about then maybe we aren't ready for that yet, maybe right now we don't make the cut. Maybe we need a few more stove burns to stop wanting to touch the stove. Philosophers for thousands of years have had the answers to a peaceful society, but it requires the empowerment of the individual, but where is the individual in our day?
They are content with their life as people are tortured in Syria, among other places, for wanting basic freedom. We can't do anything about it right? We're the victims and God is just watching us be victims? I don't buy that at all. That sounds like an excuse not to help.
If anything hope in God has power and should not be discouraged. Faith can move mountains, but that also means that faith, in the hands of evil, is very powerful.
-Sab