Four questions for Christians

[Consilius]

The act of being punished and having your child punished are incredibly different, as I've said before.
What I've also been trying to say is that whether or not anything bad happened to the kids at all depends on what you dislike about death. Being an atheist, you percieve dying as much worse than it is in the theistic realm.

No, it does not depend on such a thing, and you and I view death in precisely the same manner. The end of this life. Death is the same for me as it is for you, and all that "makes this bad" in my opinion - is that the kids are dead - and have been killed by your god..all for a tq (at the very least). Clearly you have some inkling of how bad this is..because you're insisting that the kids got lollipops after having their throats slit.

And again, the Egyptians would have expected any just legal system to punish their children in the way they did other children.

If you insist upon deferring to the egyptians legal system as being the operative..then I guess I'll have to remind you that taking a jewish slave would not have been illegal.,..so no..they weren't being punished -for- anything that was part of their own system and would have had no reason to expect to be punished in any way for -anything- they may have done to a slave. Now we're arguing for a capricious tq'ing god, good job. Further, it doesn't matter. I wouldn't defend their laws or expectations any more readily than I would defend your god, or your fantasies of what they might expect.

We've already been over all of this.

Taking slaves in war might have been common for Egyptians. Not betraying those whom you had offered hospitality to. Reciprocation of offense was exactly what they expected.
You are still dodging my question which, obviously, is very important to this argument. Say I murdered another human being. Why is this a bad thing?

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What if you get a rush from dealing in drugs?

To each his own.

Say what you enjoyed was hurting other people.