AviK……………
I’ll happily be alive having made a $5000 donation to a hospital construction project that kept me from harm’s way.
This was a case of Pikuach Nefesh and approved by my Rav at the time.
How many running from the Tsar’s draft bribed their way across borders?
How many trying to run from the Nazi’s wish they could have bribed their way out?
How many were rescued by paying bribes?
I don’t appreciate your holier than thou attitude. You weren’t to be sent to face communist guns, swamps, jungles agent orange and drugs