>>13452951>>13454246The optimism of Leibniz wasn't a "the world is wonderful" thing, his idea was all the bad shit was a necessary evil for something better to come.
For example, a Catholic might say
Spain getting invaded by Muslims, and having to fight them for 7 centuries, must have been dramatic and terrible for the Spanish (and the Spanish muslims that later were expulsed or forced to convert) but was probably a necessary evil, since that process was necessary for Spain and Portugal to form, and spread the faith from the Pacific to the Americas through their colonization, so the Arab invasion of Spain worked for the greater good.
Some Jew might say the Nazi genocide was necessary for the State of Israel to be created and for Jews to return to their ancestral land (I doubt a Jew would actually say this, I'm just giving an example)
Horrible tragic things remain horrible tragic things, but the people who have to experience the tragedy are pawns of a divine plan they ignore and can't understand, that ultimately works for the greater good.
