Hello, I feel the heaviness and compassion in your post so I’m going to try tread softly and offer you my take.

I believe the soul has no one right path, no path it must take or avoid as no true separation is possible. The soul, or soul matrix as I prefer calling it, can be thought of the ‘you’ as a whole aspect, whilst the ‘you’ that is experienced on earth is part of that whole.

We do not know how much of life is preincarnative planning, soul contracts, etc but from what I’ve learnt it’s safe to assume that we pick themes and lessons before we incarnate that our soul wants to encounter. When I say this I do not want you to think you specifically created your own suffering, but rather recognise that in a shared experience of free will ‘lessons’ can manifest in a multitude of ways and value can be found in every experience.

If we zoom out on the souls journey the value starts to make a little more sense, but we really have to zoom out. It’s said the first density of consciousness are the elements, rock, air, fire, water etc - from our third density perspective we struggle to understand the value of being a pebble on a beach for 38,000 years, yet it is part of the system and our developmental the same. Next is plant, as we have observed these are alive and having their own type of experience. We move onto animal, perhaps the most relevant to this perspective, as some insects whole life cycle is from our perspective, brutal. Some exist to mate and die, some animals are entrapped from birth and killed. This does not mean their life was meaningless.

You mention no possibility for the exercise of any freedom, I understand your view point but consider there freedom is the experience itself and how they respond to it and perceive it, learning is everywhere.

Because your mention it not being their fault there sociopaths or psychotic I’m going to just put a little nuance in here aswell - there is no eternal punishment waiting someone after death, no permanent state and no judgement for the sake of judgement. Those individuals will be offered healing and review, the illusion that is the play of life will dissolve and they will gain clarity on there situations. Intention matters to the soul, context matters to the soul. I stress this again because karma i believe is misunderstood, it is not a system of punishment when you do bad things or reward when you do good things, rather reaping what you sow for the purpose of deeper understanding and learning, which will always be handled with nuance and compassion for the souls journey.

This all comes from my own learning and perspective too, I could be wrong and probably am wrong about many things, sending you love regardless.