Oh, I understand, and I also understand compassion. But I am glad to know that given the choice you would have approved of the decision to destroy the aircraft before it could hit the tower.
If I had the links I would provide them, but...
Recently there was a teen age girl who murdered her parents. IIRC her brother survived. She and her 20 something year old boyfriend found the parents “inconvenient.”
Years ago a woman in Texas drowned her children in the bath tub.
Within the last year another woman threw her children off of a bridge.
About 12 (?) years ago Susan Smith sent her children to the bottom of a lake in the car. She claimed a black man had car-jacked her.
Even in the case of the “Yeates woman” in Texas, where the claim was insanity, I believe that the victims were simply “inconvenient.”
So; would you kill a child who cramps your style? If you are employed by a hospital would you kill your charges or would you try to save them? When you see suffering in an orphanage what do you see as the correct solution?
A few weeks ago I had to have a cat put down. He had been sick, on and off, for a year. I don’t think I ever had a more difficult task to do. If I had to go through it again I guess I would have to do the same thing. But I would never do it with a human being. A human is made in the image of God. I had that cat for over 16 years and I loved him, but he was not made in God’s image.
I hope you never told that to the cat. They have fragile egos, you know. ; )
None of your examples are relevant. Simple greed or inconvenience is not part of the discussion here. Your profile says you were in the USAF. If you were in a fighter, back in the pre-Clinton era when they still carried weapons, and saw an aircraft on its way to hit the WTC and you had a clear shot...would you have fired? One shot, possibly, and all that death and suffering could have been avoided...except for an unfortunate few. Horrible situation to be in and you should not have to be in it...but there you are. In many ways, those doctors may have been in the same situation.