On the omniscience of God

[Nick M]

and the hijacker were a government employee fighting to bring justice for minors who had been raped and murdered, would it wrong.

The hijacker part tells you he is wrong. If a sovereign government pays him to execute pedophiles, that is ok. The video of the pedo getting shot in the head in the airport by a father of a victim does not bother me, even though it is murder.

 

[Nick M]

It's easy to make the claim but can you make the argument?

I don't need to make an argument for an absolute. Water is wet is an absolute. It is our description of what is.

 

[Nick M]

If both the plane and the building were full of pedophiles, and only pedophiles, and the hijacker were a government employee fighting to bring justice for minors who had been raped and murdered, would it wrong.

Just like when muslims blow themselves up and a bunch of other muslims who desire to do harm to others it is still wrong.

 

[Derf]

The hijacker part tells you he is wrong. If a sovereign government pays him to execute pedophiles, that is ok. The video of the pedo getting shot in the head in the airport by a father of a victim does not bother me, even though it is murder.

Can't a force for good hijack a plane belonging to the force for evil?

 

[7djengo7]

Once you call him a vigilante, you define him as being outside of the proper authority. But a "hijacker" who hijacks a plane being flown by a criminal and full of criminals, could be a government operative who is vested by the state to commandeer the plane and kill the criminals.

Someone who hijacks a plane is a hijacker, not a "hijacker". And, if hijacking is unlawfully seizing (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes, I assume not many people would hesitate to describe hijackers by a phrase such as "being outside of the proper authority".

 

[Nick M]

Can't a force for good hijack a plane belonging to the force for evil?

If he is hijacking the plane then he is destroying other people‘s private property. People that try to claim right and wrong are not absolute are the ones who tell you the ship is sinking and there is room for five and there’s six of you. They also say black and white, not right and wrong so they can say there is a gray area.