Originally posted by IolantheAlias: Sidebar question:
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Maybe I am conditioned by having read the Book of Mormon so many times and having dealt with Nephi killing Laban.
Can you tell me more about this and how it relates to the movie? I have never read the Book of Mormon.
Nephi kills Laban to get the brass plates, which is basically the Bible. In 600 B.C. books were very rare, and if you are building your society on a book you want a copy. The line to justify this is "It is better that one man should perish than an entire nation perish in unbelief".
I guess the Kal-el killing Zod issue involves more immediate issues. I think I mainly bring up Nephi and the plates because Nephi is one of the leading prophets in the Book of Mormon, and while this is not the only death recounted (the Book recounts wars at various times), this is one of the most personalized versions of death there.
