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...Asmodeus can see, like, 15% of that giant mess of mortal concepts, maybe, on a good day.

Asmodeus doesn't torment tiny squirrel-sized things because Asmodeus is bigger than them and therefore better.  Asmodeus heaps all Hell's torments on them because they do not do what He says, despite threats and actual punishments, and assume the unacceptable posture of those torments making them weaker, as if they or some distant creator of theirs thought that weakness would get Asmodeus to back off from punishing them.

Abadar would never accept an unfair division of gains from trade, if someone offered a trade that left them both better off but only made Abadar an unfairly tiny bit richer, no matter the cries of 'You'd still be better off for accepting the trade than refusing it!'.  And no more would Asmodeus ever accept 'my mind won't actually devote that much theoretically attainable effort no matter what you threaten' nor 'I will perform worse if you punish me' as a reason not to threaten someone or a reason not to follow through on that threat.  There are things that matter more than attaining maximum expected utility in actual reality, to Asmodeus as to Abadar. 

The squirrel does not want to heap vast torment on its fellow tiny things for the same reason as Asmodeus.  The only part of this Asmodeus can see, at all, is any stray thoughts about how part of the deservingness of that torment is from weaker things refusing to yield to the rightful threats of stronger things.

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...Asmodeus can see, like, 15% of that giant mess of mortal concepts, maybe, on a good day.

Asmodeus doesn't torment tiny squirrel-sized things because Asmodeus is bigger than them and therefore better.  Asmodeus heaps all Hell's torments on them because they do not do what He says, despite threats and actual punishments, and assume the unacceptable posture of those torments making them weaker, as if they or some distant creator of theirs thought that weakness would get Asmodeus to back off from punishing them.

Abadar would never accept an unfair division of gains from trade, if someone offered a trade that left them both better off but only made Abadar an unfairly tiny bit richer, no matter the cries of 'You'd still be better off for accepting the trade than refusing it!'  No more would Asmodeus ever accept 'my mind won't actually devote that much theoretically attainable effort no matter what you threaten' nor 'I will perform worse if you punish me' as a reason not to threaten someone or a reason not to follow through on that threat.  There are things that matter more than attaining maximum expected utility in actual reality, to Asmodeus as to Abadar. 

The squirrel does not want to heap vast torment on its fellow tiny things for the same reason as Asmodeus.  The only part of this Asmodeus can see, at all, is any stray thoughts about how part of the deservingness of that torment is from weaker things refusing to yield to the rightful threats of stronger things.