‘Second guessing God’ is a dangerous game ... besides, looking for the ‘exception clause’ is a neat trick evil plays with the too loose mind. He used it in the Garden with Eve and continues to use it with every religion that man fabricates. When Jesus told Nicodemus he must be born again, Nic tried the exception clause approach and the response Jesus gave (in John chptr three) is instructive ... God sets the rules but won’t force you to follow them even when it means your own destruction will result.
What makes it dangerous? Is it because asking these questions may lead us to answers that God doesn't like, or because God doesn't even want us to ask questions in the first place?
And yet, that is what intercessory prayer is.