In the first three of these stages God simply states that if you will do this, I will bring that on your head. But I will surely have concealed My face on that day because of all the evil that it did. We are now in a position to understand the reason for the public fury directed at the Minister of Absorption. Human beings want to walk around with the feeling that their moral behavior is free of natural consequences because this gives them the luxury of acting according to their own conscience. It is not that they feel any strong desire to behave immorally.
Mankind wants to be in a win-win situation.
Their correct decisions, being free of self-interest, certainly entitle them to reward, whereas their wrong decisions carry no consequences. But if moral behavior has attended consequences than behaving immorally would have to as well. Indeed, it should fall within the parameters of other sorts of behavior where the governing standard is stupidity. As already stated, there is no reward for avoiding stupidity and anyone who suffers through his own stupidity has only himself to blame. The fear of God is not a lofty spiritual pinnacle but merely the beginning of wisdom and good understanding.