Why do so many wonderful people suffer and die young, while the worst of the worst beat death for decades?
Because it's an ex post facto fallacy by the observer.
With a dash of confirmation bias and cherry-picking.
On one hand you never get to see all those "good who die young" turn bad - cause they died young.
Statistically, there have to be psychopaths and thieves and murderers and even Republicans among all those dead babies in the world.
But as you don't get to see them turn bad even though they have a preference for it - you write them off as good.
Because your confirmation bias dictates that only the bad make it to the old age, why all the good die young - ignoring all the good people who live a long and fruitful life and all the *beep* who die young.
Were those upper class twits in a bright shiny ambulance good when they got themselves killed along with all those wounded they were transporting, all due to their own stupidity?
Were Larry or uncle Templeton bad? They both made it to an older age.
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