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Originally Posted by The 1,000 Reader
Eru gave them the choices and they chose the ones that he didn't like. He didn't want to cripple their free will, but he still didn't want them to take those paths of darkness.
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Well, they didn't all choose the ones he didn't like - that's the point - they all had the choice; in fact they all
had to have the choice if the Music was to be played aright in the end - & more importantly if they were to be able to
choose to play it right. The 'paths of darkness' must exist if the Children are to be truly free. They must make a free choice not to take them. Yet Eru creates them
knowing that some will take those paths. He doesn't make them take the 'paths' but he knows that some will take them (because he knows everything). So he gives them life knowing some of them will suffer (as a result of their own free choice of course). Was he right to do that? If a couple decide to have a child knowing that child will inherit a painful, crippling disease are they free of all responsibility for that child's suffering?