Re: Those hijackers granted temporary asylum
Hijackers put innocent people at risk. The implicit message is: it's OK to risk the lives of other random innocent people in order to save your own. While I can sympathize with those trapped in repressive regimes, I can't condone risking the lives of innocents to escape. I suppose one could imagine a scenario where the risk is negligible, but I don't think a airplane hijacking would qualify.
I'm glad no one was hurt (this time), but it could have gone down differently. That a number of passengers subsequently applied for asylum doesn't really change the fact that their lives were risked without their consent (and I have no problem giving the other passengers asylum if they want it--they didn't do anything wrong).
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