Say there is a quota of how many people can
enter hell and you know this to be true (or believe it rather, and are
justified in doing so, and let’s assume, it is true). The remaining people who
deserve hell after the quota is filled will go to heaven regardless of their
actions.
The moral thing for you to do, if you truly love your fellow man, is
to get to hell, to take his spot in eternal damnation so that he might get to
heaven. You do evil on earth with the motivation of doing good. Will you earn hell?
What will God judge? Your actions or their motivations? Will
you actually go to heaven instead of hell because it was your intention to go
to hell? Will your selflessness be rewarded?
Or, will God say, “you should have
known I would reward your selflessness with heaven and have thus not saved your
fellow man.”
Say you do realize this? If you really wanted to go to hell to save your fellow man,
wouldn’t you have instead chosen to do good in the hope of being punished for not doing evil with the
motivation to fill the quota?
Better yet, say you did good in the hopes of being sent to
hell (by the above reasoning) in order to save others (these others being those
who do evil without the motivation to do good and are selfishly averse to
thinking about consequence). Have you done a disservice to the good people of
heaven by sending wretched evil people to taint their eternity? Is God not also at fault for this
conundrum?
With all these thoughts passing through your mind, you must
decide to do good or evil. You have decided that if you do good in the
motivation of being punished, God will not punish you; so you ought to do evil
without caring about God or humanity or morality if you hope to get to hell.
But how can you force yourself to earn this punishment if the motivation for the
actions that warrant punishment again stem from morality?
Eihyeihyeih!
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