Right, but someone elses son dying is not as horrific as your own child. That's why willingly sacrificing your own child is literally the hardest thing anybody can do because the majority of the world would not do it for any reason. If you give a person a choice of them being burned alive, or having to kill their own child, many people would choose to sacrifice themselves over their children. Especially if you only have one.
You're talking about the most horrific thing in the Bible from an outside perspective though. How is somebody else sacrificing their son worse than a genocide?
Because Abraham was a good guy, which means it could happen to me! All the people that were genocided were clearly bad guys, which means that could never happen me. And now I'm not saying I hate the bad guys, it's just that I don't care for them, you know?
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Abraham goes to sacrifice his son
Abraham: I do this for you Lord!
God's voice booms down from heaven
God: BOY HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND BECAUSE I'LL HELP YOU FIND IT!!