As frightening, and backwards, as the old law is, I'd push people on stories like this one:

23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number. 2 Kings 2:23-25

So, god was perfectly content to slaughter young boys that made fun of his prophet for being bald. Did the prophet have that much pride? Did god?