(July 3, 2013 at 3:05 am)Consilius Wrote: Before you look to me to answer my own question, let's go on in this. You are trusting that people would simply "know" or "feel" that this is wrong, no matter their relations to the victims or the immense benefits they receive from just letting a few lives slip.
You are saying that, no matter how legal the atrocities done to these children are, there is an invisible, immutable, eternal, and universal moral code that overrules them.
What a religion like Christianity would prescribe would be in line with this moral code.
I do not "trust" that this will happen. This is a logical conclusion because we are all products of evolution, and therefore we do not harm our children. Also, i have the benefit of watching how parents and people in general react to killings of children. This isn't an issue of trust. This is blatantly obvious. No, I don't believe in a universal, eternal moral code, but let's not get derailed.
Your next point: No. Your god has prescribed killing children in the bible many times over. For a lot less than what we're talking about in this hypothetical situation.
