I don’t think any life is worth more than another. It would have been wonderful if all in the hall had escaped but that fact that some did is cause for thanksgiving imo.
I disagree. Stalin’s, Hitler’s, Pol Pot’s, and Mao’s lives were worth less than the life of the average wino. If I had the ability to save Beethoven or Jeffrey Dahmer, the choice would be easy. The members of a band called “Death Metal” or “Metal of Death” or whatever the hell it was were undoubtedly promoting nihilism and cultural degradation. It doesn’t deserve death, but any rational, decent person, given the choice, would prefer that some of the ordinary mothers and fathers had made it out instead.
Of course, I would have preferred that all the Muslim terrorists would have been killed and no one else. But that reflects my view that NOT all lives matter, and some lives don’t matter very much.