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Sentient Beings Have Good Lives
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Only a fraction of sentient beings have an adequate supply of food and water, are able to avoid predators and remain healthy at some point in their lives. If there is ever a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural stateof starvation and misery is restored. As paul draper notes, a loving god could not care more deeply about sentient beings having good lives than we do on naturalism.