So I find it interesting that God, in the story above, rejected this throne. Unlike us, he had the option of full control, and a perfectly aligned world. But he chose something different. He left pure self behind, and chose instead to create Otherness—and with it, the possibility (and reality) of evil, sin, rebellion, and all the rest.
I see reasoning or rationalizing from fictional evidence here. You’re looking at a story created by some human to serve some purpose (my guess: some vague gesturing at religion & answering the question of why-can-there-be-evil-in-this-world-if-god-is-perfectly-good), and you’re surprised that something in that story happens the way it does.
The story doesn’t work for the purpose that I think it’s made for if that choice wasn’t made. You can’t say “and that perfect world, is the one we’re living in” because then you’ll be met with so many counter points (why war, why disease, why death...) that you’ll drown in them.
There are examples you can use, but this is not one of them. This one is fake. Manufactured by humans. For instance, this “these ancient forests could hold the secret to the next vaccine” argument? Yeah, it doesn’t fit here, but it has the right idea, maybe? The idea that, if you don’t exert control over something and leave it to its own devices, then it might produce something that you yourself wouldn’t think of / that you couldn’t make yourself? Or the part where you just give an artist a patronage and no direction, because you think they’ll do better without your input.
Maybe my suggestion is too blue. But I do think that using the “god allowed freedom and as such we got humans and that’s an example of why you might not want to control everything” is assigning too much agency to this god character.
I see reasoning or rationalizing from fictional evidence here. You’re looking at a story created by some human to serve some purpose (my guess: some vague gesturing at religion & answering the question of why-can-there-be-evil-in-this-world-if-god-is-perfectly-good), and you’re surprised that something in that story happens the way it does.
The story doesn’t work for the purpose that I think it’s made for if that choice wasn’t made. You can’t say “and that perfect world, is the one we’re living in” because then you’ll be met with so many counter points (why war, why disease, why death...) that you’ll drown in them.
There are examples you can use, but this is not one of them. This one is fake. Manufactured by humans. For instance, this “these ancient forests could hold the secret to the next vaccine” argument? Yeah, it doesn’t fit here, but it has the right idea, maybe? The idea that, if you don’t exert control over something and leave it to its own devices, then it might produce something that you yourself wouldn’t think of / that you couldn’t make yourself? Or the part where you just give an artist a patronage and no direction, because you think they’ll do better without your input.
Maybe my suggestion is too blue. But I do think that using the “god allowed freedom and as such we got humans and that’s an example of why you might not want to control everything” is assigning too much agency to this god character.