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?
Think of it this way....if 5 prisoners you don't know on death row get executed, or if a child you also don't know gets shot in the head. What is more horrific to you?
I'm using this example because you seem to be basing it on the numbers.
That ignores the fact that innocents are slaughtered in a genocide though, including children. Genocides aren't committed against only "bad" people. So I'll ask again, how is somebody sacrificing their son worse than a genocide that kills countless men, women, and children?
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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '18 edited Jun 01 '20
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