Rank Ethical Speculation

 

I had two flashes this morning (3/8/26), both of which I am converting into blog entries.

This second intuitive flash, rank ethical speculation per se, is my thought that God, the universe and humans, the universe, can only be put right and kept right, if humans or other rational beings, moral, limited and biological, exist.

The universe is made right and kept right somehow through the existence of, the tribulations endured by and the willed efforts made by mortals. Both the existence of and the moral exertions undertaken by such mortals require the existence of actions (and responsibilities incurred for choices made) implemented by intelligent beings, mortal, wielding free will, rational and yet born depraved. God needs us to exist, to sin, and then learn not to sin, so that by their moral exertions, humans globally, communally or individually make the universe function, recovering, keeping or regaining natural, moral and spiritual health.

Crudely put, human existence is like a sewage system lagoon, purifying all the wastes from the universe piped into such a putrid lagoon.

A more noble way of stating it might be that there cannot be morality or spiritual goodness that is earned without intelligent beings who choose to—or not to--lead ethical lives, that there is no impactful, substantive morality, without those of free will suffering mortal doom.