Did I miss anything?

[Drich]

That is the most insane thing you have said to date. If babies/kids do not belong to their parents, then who is responsible for them?

If my grandmother is placed in my care, does that mean that she becomes property I own and that I can do with her as I please?

So for you, your grandmother is your off spring. Something/someone you created???
(Because that is what is being discussed)
Well, for the rest of us grandmothers are points of origins, and not generally created by the rest of us.

A very apt analogy to your god, indeed.

Indeed, indeed.

How do I know I was not (insert any ridiculous scenario here)?

If someone gave you something you did not want would you fight to keep it?

Where I live, I'm not allowed to own human beings as chattel.

strawman. Where was ownership of another human being as chatted ever suggested?

Not anymore, at least. Where I live, people are not allowed to destroy an airplane full of passengers, or a traffic-heavy bridge or an occupied building or a synthetic heart beating in someone's chest, even if they personally created these things.

There are laws all over the world prohibiting people from destroying these animals without a very good reason.

what are you talking about?!?!?
I asked can one own a dolphin, or orangutan. These animals are considered sentient. Yet they are own by people and companies. This was to refute the idea that a sentient being could not be owned.

When man finally creates a viable AI (if we haven't already) will it belong to someone? Of course it will.

That's your assumption, and I don't share it.

So, if when a company spends millions of dollars if not billions of dollars developing an AI.. It is your professional opinion that said company would not have ownership of said AI?

Business man are you?

Is this an arbitrary decision on God's part, or some ineffable law of reality that even God can't possibly contradict by saying "You're forgiven, and you don't even need to do anything in return"?

This is a completely arbitrary assessment. What do you base any of this on? Right now it seems like your whole Arguement is based on a general lack of understanding.

You do not keep the law of the prophets and you teach others not to. You don't deserve the forgiveness you seek and your actions demonstrate that you are not sincere in seeking it. Regardless of who's right about the afterlife, your eternal situation is going to be the same as mine.

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