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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Is air piracy ALWAYS inexcusably evil?
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 09:53:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 15 09:53:28 1985
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If the destination country has plans to kill John Doe the instant he gets
off the plane which he'd been forced onto, then of course he has no choice.
(In the two scenarios originally given, I also agree he has no choice.)
But I can promise you that the passengers on the plane do not enjoy having
their own lives at risk either.  Their risk is identical -- unless it can
be assumed that Doe is bluffing, in which case the plane is not really
hijacked.

If someone points a gun at me, and says he will kill me unless I kill you,
then I do not have a choice either.  Would you (or your relatives) excuse me?

-- 

   Norman Diamond

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