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You're mysteriously transported to 1939. You're a civilian outside a Nazi concentration camp. Soldiers have just shot and dumped hundreds of Jews into a shallow grave. Some of these Jews aren't dead, but you've just been ordered to get into a bulldozer and fill in the hole. If you refuse the soldiers will kill you and add your body to the grave. What do you do?

You're taken back a few years, before the carnage begins. You find yourself in a hotel room with a high powered rifle in your hands, aimed out the window, the sight centered on Hitler's chest. Knowing what you know about what he will soon set in motion, do you pull the trigger?

You find yourself transported decades earlier. You're a nurse in a hospital, and before you in a crib is the new born Adolf Hitler, the child who will one day murder 11 million people, including 6 million Jews... Do you place your hand over it's face and smother it?

Is it ever justifiable to take an innocent life? The Babe hasn't committed any crime. The new Führer has yet to begin his campaign of extermination. Those bodies in the grave, some still alive, cannot help the circumstances of their birth. What do you do?

3 Comments:

  1. BenT - the unbeliever said...
    If you believe certain types of Christian and Jewish theology that the Holocaust and World War II were required for the creation of the Israel nation, then killing Hitler would be a futile exercise. God would have raised another to take his place.
    Eric said...
    That's an interesting thought, Ben, but it ignores the question.

    The question, if you watched the 30 minute film, invalidates the idea that abortion is a right every woman is morally free to make.

    In terms of the here and now? The law (man's law) gives her that right--after all, government, presently, is morally inept. In light of eternity, all life is precious... no one has the right to take a human life. Not Hitler's, not even George Tiller's.
    Mark said...
    It is never right to murder a pre-born child, even if you know he will become a monster. There is always a chance that the child will someday change his mind or his heart and not become a monster. As long as that chance exist, it would be murder to take that chance of change away form him.

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