 Details concerning such things as how suffering and other evils are distributed over individuals, and the nature of those who undergo the evils, are, then, of crucial importance.  Thus it is relevant, for example, that many innocent children suffer agonizing deaths.  It is relevant that animals suffer, and that they did so before there were any persons to observe their suffering, and to feel sympathy for them.  It is also relevant that, on the one hand, the suffering that people undergo apparently bears no relation to the moral quality of their lives, and, on the other, that it bears a very clear relation to the wealth and medical knowledge of the societies in which they live.