So--a bureaucrat insists a scientist abandon a family member to people who will torture him to death.
Didn't actually say that. In my story it was God's idea, and a pretty desperate one at that.
Okay. Now we're back to this being God's idea, and God bearing moral responsibility for initiating it and carrying it out.
I'm cool with this--believing it was God's idea; His best solution to pressures I don't understand but that did not actually *require* killing anyone--but now I feel fully justified in holding God responsible.
Even someone with Einstein's human intellect, given 13.7 billion years to think about the problem, ought to be able to come up with "If I'm not going to punish repentant perpetrators, maybe there's no need to punish anybody--and certainly not someone who had nothing to do with the offenses."
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Date: 2010-05-01 12:35 pm (UTC)Didn't actually say that. In my story it was God's idea, and a pretty desperate one at that.
Okay. Now we're back to this being God's idea, and God bearing moral responsibility for initiating it and carrying it out.
I'm cool with this--believing it was God's idea; His best solution to pressures I don't understand but that did not actually *require* killing anyone--but now I feel fully justified in holding God responsible.
Even someone with Einstein's human intellect, given 13.7 billion years to think about the problem, ought to be able to come up with "If I'm not going to punish repentant perpetrators, maybe there's no need to punish anybody--and certainly not someone who had nothing to do with the offenses."