(July 19, 2022 at 8:45 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Furthermore, I think that doing so is an ethical obligation if you actually believe a deity exists.
Consider the pitch. Not gods, our lovely friends. A lollipop in heaven tomorrow if you kill your kid on earth today. I mean, who wouldn't, amiright? Any excuse to get rid of the little fuckers. A gods morality is rarely an improvement on it's people's, but if this is the kind of moral assessor we're dealing with what are the odds his conclusion as to whether or not it might be bad to kill your kid, or bad to arrange such a loyalty test, is "shoe : boxcar : purple"...?
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