You're misquoting me. I never said Abraham didn't love his child as much
as a modern father would; otherwise, why would I have asked the original
question?
What I said -- in an attempt to partially explain this puzzle -- was
that the high infant mortality rates might have affected attitudes to
some small extent; after all, aren't you supposed to not sit shiva for a
child who dies before he's a month old?
The question was: If Hashem orders you to do the unthinkable... When His
commands and your conscience oppose one another... what action is
"right"?
Bill Bickel