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"Are you saying that pain and suffering are part of some intentional cosmic process which enhances human life, or potential life? If so, I'd have to disagree"

It is a law of nature. I dont think it is cosmic. I beleive in selfish gene theory. It is an interplay of this selfish genes which causes the conflict, and the purpose of this interplay is to satisfy the laws of Nature which is the 1st law of purpose theory. Now there may not really be a selfish gene, I agree with that, but how the humans will behave can be ascribed to selfish gene. There is lot more going on in the subconcious brain than we know.