The question always posed that is meant to stump or degrade a personal belief in a greater presence, is Then why does God allow such great horrors, pain, and evil to exist in this world? Quickly followed up, I wouldn’t believe in such evil.
It always seems that the persons making an argument for a morality centered outside of an individual evades, or can not suffice an answer. The struggle to address this concept has always annoyed me because the answer seems so simple: freedom of will.
Chasing intellect/knowledge comes with pitfalls. Intelligence breeds fear never felt and pain never realized because the more you understand, the more capable you become at spotting wrongs. The act of understanding illuminates darkness until nothing can hide.
That is the power and the responsibility of knowledge. Having the freedom to choose sight or blindness, and the path of learning, or the trail to ignorance. The latter must dictate that one cannot be free of the experiences of others. Knowing must include their pain. Experience, whether simulated or partaken, builds the path to understanding.
We have the Freedom to choose ignorance, the chance to not bite the apple, but we choose to do it. Every person makes decisions that affect their surroundings whether they do it unconsciously, or knowingly. The consequences may never be seen by the one choosing, but only by those that are watching and learning. The bliss that exists in the mind of the chooser would end upon an explanation fit to their understanding. One that shows the negative that has resulted because of their action, and in doing so would introduce great pain to their individual life.
Freedom is knowledge and they both come with great responsibility. They result in grave consequences. The discovered right to understand does not mean that freedom should also mean freedom from consequence. The informed choices you make are liberty, everything else is universal law.
There is balance to seek in your journey, but remember that discovering the Atom, the possibility of abundant energy always turns into a fear of annihilation. Because creation is a force that is forever coupled with destruction.