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William Malenfant: Morality in the Last Days (2 Tim. 3:13)

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SCENARIO: You are at a packed Kingdom Hall on Memorial night, and ten minutes into the remembrance talk, six masked people with weapons enter the Kingdom Hall and begin shooting everyone they can, without any conversation. You are shot in the left side of your face and most of those teeth are gone. Before you know what is going on twelve Brothers and Sisters have been shot, screaming and panic ensues, and there is blood and bodies and brains all over, and the shooting continues. Would it be fitting for a Brother to use his handgun to return fire on the murderers to try and save his own life, or the lives of his Brothers and Sisters? Or, in PubSpeak ... "Would it be fitting for a Christian to keep a firearm, such as a handgun or a rifle, for protection against other humans?" ( July 2017 Watchtower ) This raises MANY Theocratic, moral, ethical, legal, and Societial policy questions ... all of which have REAL answers. What is the RIGHT thing for a responsible Christian to do?

This is a three part question with THREE related answers: I saw a movie about a year ago about this Cowboy, driving his jeep through the desert, and he comes upon about six cars and pickup trucks grouped together, out in the middle of nowhere ... with bodies all around and in the vehicles. Apparently a drug deal had "gone bad", and the buyers and sellers had killed each other.. The pickup trucks are full of bales of drugs, and the cars are full of suitcases full of money. The Cowboy puts gasoline on the drugs, burning them up, and goes home with the money. Did he STEAL the money ... and does he have a moral responsibility to return it to the people who were going to buy the drugs? Bear in mind, he has broken NO LAW ... and he is not legally REQUIRED to report the criminal activity ..... much like the Society's position that they will not turn JW child sex abusers over to the police unless legally REQUIRED to do so. Using the principles long established by the WTB&TS .... I would be inclined to keep the money ! Of course I would check for hidden tracking transmitters in the suitcases ... and take other evasive precautions. .Question 1.) Did the Cowboy STEAL the money ... ? Question 2.) Does he have a moral responsibility to return it to the people who were going to buy the drugs ... ? Question 3.) What would YOU do? EXTRA CREDIT: Was it immoral for the Cowboy to deliberately destroy the drug dealers' property?