Some years ago, Rabbi Harold Kushner published a book, a very popular book, called Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People?  We all resonate with this.  We also resonate with its converse.  Why do those who seem so evil, like the Nazi Adolf Eichmann, live into their late nineties, and their victims do not see their thirtieth birthday?  Why, as countless religious texts observe, do those who do the most good die first and those who do the most evil last?  Or as songwriter Billy Joel opined, "Why do the good die young?"  It doesn't seem fair.
     And it's not.  We will never be able to understand why, either.  It is a question that will haunt us to the day we die.  The world is bent, the cosmos is broken, and equity constantly eludes us.  On the other hand, how do we measure what is fair?  How do we know, always know, what is right?
     The short answer is that we don't.  The longer answer is that we have one of two avenues to pursue.  We can suppose that there is a God who will one day set all things right.  Or we can suppose that we will do the best we can to effect what we perceive to be justice in this life and leave the rest to the forces of time and destiny.  Or we can do both.  Either way, justice matters.
     On the other hand, may be not:  if we cannot explain the reason for the world, we really have no basis to complain.  What's the point?
     Oddly, if God isn't there, we have no way to even ask the question.