Question

Hello and greetings. I read your article, “Abraham Michi – Gratitude as a Moral and Logical Obligation.” I wanted to ask: granted, there is indeed an obligation from the standpoint of justice to obey my Creator, but what happens when that collides with harming someone else?
If a child is crying because he wants to go to the beach on the Sabbath, etc., then ostensibly there is harm being done to him; and the same would apply to a priest and a divorcee, etc. One could say that in a case of double doubt I have the option of “harming” God (not fulfilling His will) or the child, but because of that obligation toward my Creator, I would choose not to “harm” Him. But what about cases where I must simply cause distress to / punish others (for not fulfilling God’s will) as an act in itself? Does that same obligation apply there as well? If we compare this to a parent, then fine, perhaps it would be an act of piety to obey him if he tells you to harm yourself to some degree, but if he tells you to harm another person, we certainly would not say that just because he created me I should fulfill his will.
Seemingly one could say yes, because if I hold that those people too are obligated to Him, then I am coercing them, etc., somewhat like forcing a child to honor his parents. But is that what you mean? And does the very fact that someone is my Creator and my fellow’s Creator give me the power to cause my fellow distress simply because he too was created by Him? a0
If so, I would be glad if you could elaborate more. In any case, it would seem that in order to realize the above, one must assume—whether by tradition, reasoning, etc.—that everything God does ultimately leads to good for everyone (that even punishments are for the sinner’s benefit, and likewise it is in the child’s interest not to go to the beach on the Sabbath, etc.), and then this same problem no longer really exists. Do you agree with that?
And since we’ve gotten this far: if I agree that kindness / doing good for another is a value, then that itself can already serve as a motive for serving God, and perhaps even as an obligation, like my obligation to do kindness / good. Do you agree with that?
Thank you very much, and sorry for the length.