Biophile comments on Mere Messiahs - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 December 2007 12:49AM

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Comment author: Biophile 07 May 2013 01:48:42AM *  2 points [-]

If you refused to kill your firstborn, you wouldn't be smitten with a thunderbolt, you'd be told you had passed the test, and were truly worthy.

If this is so, then I have to question why Abraham got the same response for not refusing to kill the first child resulting from his marriage.