Maybe this has been discussed before. If not:
Assume Christianity is true, and you believe it. A soul is permanently created when a sperm meets an egg. That soul will have eternal life one way or another, in heaven or hell. Going to hell is bad. Going to heaven is good. If a person dies in their childhood before they have a chance to knowingly do wrong, they go to heaven. You probably see where this is going.
Now, if it were me, I'd actually want to have died in childhood. Then I would be in heaven right now. The way things actually are, I don't know if I am going to heaven. I might go to hell. And certainly some people I know will go to hell. It seems entirely preferable, given this system, that we do some slightly counterintuitive things. Namely, abort as many babies as possible.
The possibilities are nearly limitless. To merely encourage women to have more abortions is only a start. An entire industrial complex could be set up. Harvest female eggs, inseminate them, and kill them immediately. This could be done by the trillion per day. It could even be fully automated to remove human responsibility. Girls are born with all the eggs they will ever produce. Some portion of them will be allowed to grow to that point, their eggs will be harvested, then they will be killed by machines. In this manner heaven will be populated with quadrillions of souls in a relatively short amount of time.
That's an extraordinarily good outcome. I mean, it has been a very hard thing to make this world a remotely pleasant, civilized place. Here, using a pinch of intelligence, we have a better shortcut than we ever could have asked for. It's really not so much about intelligence. If you actually believe this stuff, it's more about just getting over the habit of following your instincts and living a normal human life. But it is sure that doing so only puts people at risk of going to hell. If we can just follow our beliefs to the letter, we get an outcome that is outrageously superior. This is actually the rational thing to do given such beliefs.
Hopefully we would invent AI as soon as possible an program them to maximize human abortions, which they would then do with exponentially improving efficiency until the heat death of the universe, and maybe they'd even figure out how to prevent that. I've read some ideas. Heaven would be filled with googolplexes upon googolplexes of souls living in the highest bliss. Hell would have a comparatively tiny number of souls, and the devil would be pulling his hair out. Lastly, for those who committed the sin of performing the abortions, they could repent before they died. Even if that weren't an option, which I have no reason to believe it wouldn't be, they still would have achieved ratios of billions to one in terms of souls that went to heaven or hell. It would be a truly selfless sacrifice for them to have made.
System = beat.
Assume Christianity is true, and you believe it. A soul is permanently created when a sperm meets an egg. That soul will have eternal life one way or another, in heaven or hell. Going to hell is bad. Going to heaven is good. If a person dies in their childhood before they have a chance to knowingly do wrong, they go to heaven. You probably see where this is going.
Now, if it were me, I'd actually want to have died in childhood. Then I would be in heaven right now. The way things actually are, I don't know if I am going to heaven. I might go to hell. And certainly some people I know will go to hell. It seems entirely preferable, given this system, that we do some slightly counterintuitive things. Namely, abort as many babies as possible.
The possibilities are nearly limitless. To merely encourage women to have more abortions is only a start. An entire industrial complex could be set up. Harvest female eggs, inseminate them, and kill them immediately. This could be done by the trillion per day. It could even be fully automated to remove human responsibility. Girls are born with all the eggs they will ever produce. Some portion of them will be allowed to grow to that point, their eggs will be harvested, then they will be killed by machines. In this manner heaven will be populated with quadrillions of souls in a relatively short amount of time.
That's an extraordinarily good outcome. I mean, it has been a very hard thing to make this world a remotely pleasant, civilized place. Here, using a pinch of intelligence, we have a better shortcut than we ever could have asked for. It's really not so much about intelligence. If you actually believe this stuff, it's more about just getting over the habit of following your instincts and living a normal human life. But it is sure that doing so only puts people at risk of going to hell. If we can just follow our beliefs to the letter, we get an outcome that is outrageously superior. This is actually the rational thing to do given such beliefs.
Hopefully we would invent AI as soon as possible an program them to maximize human abortions, which they would then do with exponentially improving efficiency until the heat death of the universe, and maybe they'd even figure out how to prevent that. I've read some ideas. Heaven would be filled with googolplexes upon googolplexes of souls living in the highest bliss. Hell would have a comparatively tiny number of souls, and the devil would be pulling his hair out. Lastly, for those who committed the sin of performing the abortions, they could repent before they died. Even if that weren't an option, which I have no reason to believe it wouldn't be, they still would have achieved ratios of billions to one in terms of souls that went to heaven or hell. It would be a truly selfless sacrifice for them to have made.
System = beat.
