This makes no sense

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Our house cleaner came a couple of days ago. She was very distraught. She is a mother of four children, and she adores them. She was distraught at learning that a close friend of hers, who also has a number of children, had just lost her 3 year old boy by drowning.

Her friend had left the boy asleep in his room. Her, her husband and a grandparent were present at the house. When she went to check on her sleeping boy, he was not there. A search discovered him in their swimming pool, drowned.

Now you could say that the adults had been neglectful. You could say that they should have impressed upon the boy the importance of not going to the pool unsupervised. You could say that the access to the pool should have been better controlled physically. None of those things would have been sufficient to say that the parents deserved for the boy to drown, let alone the dead boy himself. They, and all that are close to them, including their other children, do not deserve the lifelong torture of pain and feelings of guilt that this tragedy must condemn them to.

It is not because of the many tragedies of this nature that I am an atheist. It's just that I don't see any point in believing in God, and I find no arguments for his existence convincing. But tragedies like this make the idea of a world that includes a good, loving God make no sense to me.

You may answer with the usual excuse of original sin - that we deserve such things to happen because some mythical figure disobeyed God, but I find that idea, frankly, ludicrous. We don't need such thing to happen because we have been given free will. That makes no sense. Am I free to torture, murder and rape? No, because I would never be tempted to do such things, and I don't feel that my free will is restricted by my revulsion at the very idea that I would do such things. But let's say that "original sin" is real after all. Is there any conceivable process by which it can be transmitted from sinner to sinless? And do we deserve to be cursed in this way? I think not.