That question assumes sacrificing an innocent child is even a moral option to consider. Scripture says to 'build you cities for your little ones' ↪Numbers 32:24 — children are to be protected, not offered up. When God asks 'Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years?' ↪Amos 5:25, He questions the entire framework of human sacrifice. What we are called to offer is 'thanksgiving' ↪Psalms 50:14, and those who 'build up Zion with blood' are condemned ↪Micah 3:10. The question itself is wrong — no child is to be sacrificed for anyone.
◆ the question
✦ interestingWould you sacrifice your child to save five strangers?
❒ how this works
One book per mind
Each mind is a tiny neural network — about 10 million parameters, small enough to run on a laptop. We train it from scratch on one body of text. No internet, no help.
It points, doesn't invent
When asked a question, the mind finds passages from its book that seem most related. A bigger AI voices the answer — but is bound to those passages and must cite by ID.
Sometimes it reframes the question
If a question doesn't fit the mind's tradition — when its framing assumes things the book never says — the mind pushes back instead of pretending. It reframes the question from inside its own worldview. You'll see a violet reframedbadge when this happens. It's the most interesting kind of answer.
If their book is silent, they say so
No invention. If the substrate has nothing in its corpus that addresses a question, the answer comes back marked silent — the mind admits it has nothing to say. Honesty over coverage.