05-06-2020, 03:39 AM
Of course. I've wondered the same thing. In order to be culpable before the law, you must understand its consequences.
Why do not have different legal standards for people with, say, Downs Syndrome? Do they understand the consequences of their actions?
If Adam was naive and didn't know what "death" meant, how could it be fair to make so much ride on a simple forbidden task such as eating something? He didn't know what he was doing or what it would do. He only knew that he was told "no," and we're all aware that saying "no" just awakens curiosity.
Can you imagine? You tell your child not to touch something that you put on the table. He doesn't know that it's expensive. He doesn't know that it's fragile. He doesn't know that it belongs to your neighbor. He just sees something on the table, and when you told him not to touch it, it made him curious. Who would think it justifiable to throw a child into a scalding tub of water because he reached out his hand and knocked the item from the table and it broke on the ground?
How can Adam have deserved death and curses because he didn't something that he didn't understand? Just because God said "no"?
It's a hard story to swallow on an ethical level.
Why do not have different legal standards for people with, say, Downs Syndrome? Do they understand the consequences of their actions?
If Adam was naive and didn't know what "death" meant, how could it be fair to make so much ride on a simple forbidden task such as eating something? He didn't know what he was doing or what it would do. He only knew that he was told "no," and we're all aware that saying "no" just awakens curiosity.
Can you imagine? You tell your child not to touch something that you put on the table. He doesn't know that it's expensive. He doesn't know that it's fragile. He doesn't know that it belongs to your neighbor. He just sees something on the table, and when you told him not to touch it, it made him curious. Who would think it justifiable to throw a child into a scalding tub of water because he reached out his hand and knocked the item from the table and it broke on the ground?
How can Adam have deserved death and curses because he didn't something that he didn't understand? Just because God said "no"?
It's a hard story to swallow on an ethical level.