Since life on Earth seems to have started on its own, with all the good and bad that goes with it, who is responsible for that?
Maybe it was a lab tech in a different universe, running some high energy physics experiment, and accidentally creating a new universe? He never noticed, since his universe and ours never intersected, and we’ll never know about him, of course, but is he responsible for the suffering on Earth?
What about the doctor who delivered baby Hitler? Is he responsible for the suffering that Hitler caused?
You know that butterfly’s sneeze that eventually led to hurricane Maria that killed 3,000 of our fellow humans on Puerto Rico? Do butterflies feel no shame?
So anyway, I think my point is that when my act of creation is not the proximate cause of any suffering, then it’s not reasonable to talk of my responsibility for the suffering.
Possibly I might have designed a Genesis Device[1] that would create a planet without dangerous weather and earth quakes, a Sun that is even steadier than ours and produces no CME storms that can set fire to the entire planet, and an ecosystem that doesn’t have diseases that can evolve to kill half of humanity in a careless moment? Maybe a human animal that is just slightly more rational, more willing to love, forgive, and support their fellow humans? And no diseases, or age related infirmity? If death is even necessary there’d be a painless fading over a few days, one that is arranged by the person who will die?
I like that idea, and if I were building the Genesis Device that’s what I’d try for. However, I’m skeptical that, given the entire process of evolution is not actually directed, that natural selection doesn’t give two flying figs at a rolling donut if there’s suffering down the road as long as there are lots of bebbies, a process like that can ever result in a perfect world.
So I’ll take what I can get, and figure if it’s not worse than what we got just by being lucky, then we’re ahead.
[1] Genesis Device from Star Trek 2, the Wrath of Khan, turns a dead planet into a world with life and everything, in the space of a few minutes. Genesis Device | Memory Alpha | Fandom