[Avodah] Pikuach Nefesh

[Zev Sero]

On 12/06/2011 9:49 AM, Hankman wrote:

> Of course you are right, they were all doomed. But we only know that with certainty with 20/20 hindsight. Prior to these events we had no certainty that the passengers were all doomed. The air force might have talked the hijackers down or some passengers could possibly have survived the crash (not likely in hindsight but a possibility that could have been possible without the benefit of hindsight) or they could have missed their target (the inexperienced novice terrorist pilot was piloting the plane).

Or the hijackers might have done teshuvah.  They were not robots, they were
moral agents, fully responsible for their actions, and thus capable of
changing them.  Therefore nothing was inevitable.

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