Q&A: Clinging to an airplane.
Clinging to an airplane.
Question
In light of what happened to the Afghans, and also following the column,
I was wondering: if someone were to chain himself to an airplane with iron chains, and in that way hitch a ride from one country to another, would he arrive alive?
I understand that this question is less suited to the Rabbi in his role as a rabbi; I’m asking your honor as someone who understands science. [I didn’t study the core curriculum and have no clue…]
It interests me [and maybe a few other readers too]; perhaps your honor, in your great kindness, will share some of your wisdom with us.
Answer
I don’t know. I assume not.
Discussion on Answer
The temperature at such altitudes can drop to extremely low levels. There have been cases of people who were trapped in or snuck into the cargo hold and were found dead from hypothermia. The air is also very low in oxygen at those altitudes.
It seems to me that the esteemed questioner didn’t bother for even a moment to consider the airplane’s point of view and its rights. Mock all you want, but I see here a path that ends in genocide against airplanes. No need to go as far as Afghanistan.
With God’s help, 10 Elul 5781
From the words of Rashi (whose source is in the midrashim of the Sages) on the verse “And the fugitive came,” namely that Og survived the Flood by holding onto the outside of the ark, one may find support for being saved by attaching oneself to the outside of an airplane.
It should be noted that the Taliban leaders promised amnesty to whoever surrenders to them, but I do not know how strictly they keep their promises. Therefore it is difficult to decide in which direction the danger is greater, in fleeing or in remaining.
Best regards, Eliam Fishel Workheimer
And it is a serious wonder regarding the Americans and the other Western countries why they cannot slow the pace of their departure in order to allow humanitarian assistance to the locals who want to escape. They may not be Palestinians, but as refugees they too deserve humanitarian aid.
If anyone who wants to flee Afghanistan gets permission to settle in the USA or Britain, that would include 99.5% of the population…
And nobody wants these backward people [culturally, mentally, and religiously] as neighbors.
And instead of bringing them all to the USA, it’s easier for them to remain there under the USA; that’s what they tried, and in fact it didn’t work with a people of yuck culture.
It seems to me that the real “yuck” is the one who talks loftily about liberalism and humanitarianism, and at the moment of truth abandons innocent people to slaughter. This is “developed culture” 🙂
Best regards, Ochs und Fuchse
Being liberal and good isn’t supposed to go together with stupidity. “And live by them,” not die by them. If he also turns his own life and his country into a total wreck, what good will come of that?
On the contrary, throughout its history the USA has been a refuge for the persecuted, and each group contributed, each in its own way, to the cultivation and advancement of the absorbing country. It was built from waves of immigration.
Best regards, Yosef Zvi Bidani Levy-Trumpist
Study Alman’s book.
You’ll see they weren’t suckers.
They took people in, and with plenty of compassion, but with enough sense to know whom not to.
That’s what I thought too. But what’s the reason—what would he die from? [A trip of a few hours]