They made the same choice Satan did, they chose to be haughty and cruel and violent and perverse and they refuse to humble themselves, or be repentant so they could not be redeemed. God Always chose and chooses as his people the humble the meek, the lowly and the kind, he sees the haughty who won't repent or change as his enemies.
There is something else you should consider: God does not share our point of view on death, he has a unique point of view on death, when people die they all just "return" to him, so God does not view the first death like we do...
"One side is steadfastly defending behaviour that the other side just cannot accept as "moral"."
Anyways, could you provide a short list of what moral problems behavior that is being discussed here, in a few short sentences?
The question raised in this thread was "where do moral obligations come from?"
The answer given (even if not literally) by the Christian original author was "of course from God, only from him can
real morals come from".
And now we are here, debating the morality of certain actions. We talk about actions that no "moral" human would defend... except when they are based on their faith.
Palestinian childs learn to hate, fight and kill the evil oppressors who starve their families, imprison their people and kill them with every possible weapon in their high-tech arsenals. Israeli children learn to hate, fight and kill the evil terrorists, who blow up their families and friends with primitive rockets and suicide bombs.
The divinely moral solution to this problem would be: kill them all. Kill all the Israelis... so that they will stop their oppression and let the Palestinians live in peace and happiness and holy following of God. Kill all the Palestinians, so that their will stop their terrorising the Jews and let Israel fulful its destiny as God's chosen people.
Their death doesn't mean the same thing to him as to us, and they all will be happy with him in Heaven!
Kill them all, and let God sort out his own.
This is the morality of the Amalekits, of the Cathars, of the Inquisition, of witch burnings and of judicial duels... and, yes, the morality of the Holocaust. And, very modern, the morality of torture.
It never worked.
There are still people who think it somehow does. People like you. Just kill "the evil ones"... and all your problems will be solved. The innocents - certainly only a few, because the rest is obviously so evil - are neglectable... and certainly they will be saved by God.
It still never works.
And on the other hand there are enough people who see that it doesn't work... that it is "immoral". All these people do have a functioning moral system that doesn't include - forbids! Abhorrs! - this approach.
Where does their morality come from, so diametrially opposed to this morality of extermination?
Considering the view of morality you have shown here, this is an obscenity!
I solemnly affirm... if you ever again threaten me with the blessings of your God, you will be the first person to grace my ignore list!