So have any of you seen The 100? It's pretty interesting. Anyway, on the latest ep, the chancellor of the spaceship, dubbed the Ark, agrees to have over 300 people sacrificed (murdered) in order to reserve oxygen. Another member of the council, Abby (known as Zoe Morgan for us Person of Interest fans 
) interfered and announced the low oxygen supply and the chancellor's plan to kill 300 passengers to the general public. The message then inspired the people to volunteer to be killed in order to help their loved ones.
The show makes these 300 people to be heroes, sacrificing themselves for the good of the rest of their loved ones. It makes it seem like a mass execution is ok as long as the people are killed with their consent.
So, the real question here is, "Do people have full control over their own lives, and do leaders have control over the lives of those they lead?"
This a big topic in all the current eps of the show. I say that no. No one has the right to decide when someone dies, and that one does not own his own life, that suicide is wrong. "And ye are not your own,For ye are bought with a price."(1 Cor. 6:20) But then again, could this situation be compared to war, possibly? Soldiers go into war knowing that they will most likely be killed and that they will kill, but it's all for a cause, right? So therefore, it must be morally right? I'm trying neither to glorify war nor put it down. I mean, God ordered people to wage war. So it must be good under certain circumstances, yes? So, can this incident of killing people for a seemingly good cause be morally ok? How do you think we as Christians should feel towards it?
) interfered and announced the low oxygen supply and the chancellor's plan to kill 300 passengers to the general public. The message then inspired the people to volunteer to be killed in order to help their loved ones. The show makes these 300 people to be heroes, sacrificing themselves for the good of the rest of their loved ones. It makes it seem like a mass execution is ok as long as the people are killed with their consent.
So, the real question here is, "Do people have full control over their own lives, and do leaders have control over the lives of those they lead?"
This a big topic in all the current eps of the show. I say that no. No one has the right to decide when someone dies, and that one does not own his own life, that suicide is wrong. "And ye are not your own,For ye are bought with a price."(1 Cor. 6:20) But then again, could this situation be compared to war, possibly? Soldiers go into war knowing that they will most likely be killed and that they will kill, but it's all for a cause, right? So therefore, it must be morally right? I'm trying neither to glorify war nor put it down. I mean, God ordered people to wage war. So it must be good under certain circumstances, yes? So, can this incident of killing people for a seemingly good cause be morally ok? How do you think we as Christians should feel towards it?
