Bad Things Happen For a Reason

[MaxwellEdison]

While it's great to see the silver lining in things, bad things don't happen for a reason. Sometimes, there's an added bonus to a bad thing that makes you cope better, or learn a lesson, or improves your life. That doesn't mean it's set up that way, that just makes you lucky.

I went through a really shitty summer relationship-wise, but that left me single this year, when I met someone I now love very much. So, yeah, I've seen the bright side of shit too- and it is bright indeed.

 

[Wharrgarble]

I buy more into the "what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger" argument. I don't think anything bad ever happens for a reason... It just happens. That's a part of life, you sometimes get good and you sometimes get bad. It's how you handle whatever comes your way that matters.

 

[rubinigosa]

Well if someone can give me a situation where a bad thing turned into something good without personal opinions then I may reconsider my following statement...Bullshit,bad things happen because it just does it is not going to change into something good just because you think so but because you form opinions baste on that event.
"That which does not kill you makes you stronger."-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Summarizes this well.

 

[Torrasque]

Originally, I was going to say "you're a fucking idiot", but you actually support your outrageous argument with some good points.

And yes, "bad things" are only bad if you think of them as bad things.
A relative dying from cancer may suck because they are dead (duh), but they are no longer in pain.

Thats the only example I'll get into, because every other example I can think of will offend some people.
It is extremely hard to weigh the good you receive from an action against the bad you must do to carry out that action (at least in real life), and when human lives are the currency, that difficulty just gets astronomically worse.

Edit:
I think bad things happen for a reason, because if there was no reason, then they wouldn't happen.
Even if that reason is: "Why did you kill those people?" 'Because I felt like it'
I'm not saying that bad things happen for a GOOD reason, just that they have some reason.

 

[Nick Angelici]

cant think of one, life just sucks like that. bad shit happens, and no one cares, not too mention that a lot of the time bad stuff happens because of Stupid causes. and usually, nothing better happens afterwords

 

[sylekage]

Bad things happen. Whether it be for a legitimate reason, or just to be bad. Most of the time bad things happen just because they happen, and if some good comes out of it, give it time, it'll go back to bad quite soon.

 

[Reptiloid]

There's no way to justify stabbing a loli. That being said, I'm personally a follower of the "stuff happens" theory.

 

[Rarhnor]

That's not what I would define as good outcomes of bad situations.

Rather, I'll say this: The world is what you make it.