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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 88702" data-attributes="member: 2525">You know, I read this, and just had to laugh. No hero from film would do this? Allow me to quote a conversation between two hostage-negotiator police officers (Jack being the lead) from the movie Speed (1994):"Alright, pop quiz. Airport. Gunman with one hostage. He's using her for cover. He's almost to the plane. You're a hundred feet away. Jack? Shoot the hostage. What? Take her out of the equation. Go for the good wound and he can't go for the plane with her. Clear shot."That is effectively what the heros did in the situation described at the beginning of this thread.  I think it is naivity to believe that people who take hostages do not need to be stopped at all costs. The hostage will likely be killed later, and letting the villian get away puts the lives of other innocent people in jeopardy as well.  This is the justification for war, and for executions, as well (kill someone to prevent even more killing of innocents in the future).  Take the hostage out of the equation, and you not only stop the escape of the villian, but you send a message to other villians that taking hostages will not work.  In a world where ressurection is real, that is exactly the kind of message many a heros would want to send: "Evil, know this.  Hostage taking is not a tactic that you can use against us, so don't even try it." Perhaps that's just the lawful neutral in me, leaking out.-Mistwell</blockquote>

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