Dialog on suffering

I: If there is a God, I'm not interested in him, because how can he be good, seeing he allows so much suffering?
B: Have you ever done something that hurt another person, something you were later sorry about but you could not 'reverse'?
I: What has that got to do with the discussion?
B: You'll see.
I: OK, let's say 'yes' for the sake of the argument.
B: If there is a God, should he have stopped you from hurting the other person?
I: It depends.
B: So you would want him to stop you if your action would have severe consequences?
I: Yes.
B: How should he stop you, strike you with lightning, cause your limbs or tongue to stop functioning or what?
I: Whatever.
B: So you would prefer not to have a 'free will'?
I: I don't have a 'free will' anyway.
B: So you're like a robot in some aspects or what do you mean?
I: There are things I cannot do even if I wanted to.
B: But there are bad things which you can do, right?
I: I guess so.
B: I hope you can see God's dilemma. He made us so that we are able to make choices. He took the risk that we could hurt one another.
I: He must take responsibility for it then.
B: He does, and that does not make him someone who delights in evil. He remains good and he helps everyone who wants to do good to improve his/her behaviour.
I: A pity so many must suffer pain in the process.
B: Would life not have been terribly boring if we had been programmed to do only certain things and unable to 'follow our dreams'?
I: If I was God I think I would have found it boring to create only machines, whether they are called people, or animals or plants.
B: Imagine being the only human being and having an infinite IQ. I could create the best computers and make them 'live'. It would be most boring if they could not choose some things for themselves.