At a certain point I just have to trust that God as infinitely more aware and sensitive to things like justice than I ever could be and that just maybe he knows something I don't. For instance, maybe somehow their death was their salvation in some way (as it is for believers as well.) It's impossible to say for now, but at the end of the day God is God and we're not. Also, so much confusion is cleared up when we remember that God sees things from every posisble angle, including from eternity future.
Edit: All this to say, asking a Christian to defend all of God's actions is like asking a preschooler to defend all of their parents' actions. The inability to do so is no fault of the child nor is it a commentary on the morality of the parent. It's just how things are for now.
Personally, I'm becoming more comfortable with the idea that God's judgment doesn't necessarily reflect my own sensibilities (or the sensibilities of anyone else).
Which isn't to say that I'm a more finely tuned instrument at all, but that I'm actually quite dull. In the recent Book Club/Chesterton chapter, he says:
>Keeping to one woman is a small price for so much as seeing one woman. To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. It was incommensurate with the terrible excitement of which one was talking. It showed, not an exaggerated sensibility to sex, but a curious insensibility to it.
The concept hadn't really hit me so squarely before; that much of human society is the result of our profound insensitivity to things. I think that if I'm not comfortable with God's judgment, that I should first ask if the problem is not my own.
That said, I also tend to read those chapters as quite the exaggerated polemic. I haven't read the book, but Is God a Moral Monster goes quite in-depth on the subject. (I have listened to enough lectures by the author, however, to be familiar with the book and feel confident in recommending it).
tl;dr I try to follow the rules of the land in submission to the authorities, even when they are unjust, as long as they are not immoral.
I can download music up here legally.
Dear friends of mine create intellectual property for a living. I used to be in software as well, so....in general I do not pirate software. If I need something and I can't "afford" it, I know where to get free alternatives. There is really no need for me to pirate software.
A subcategory of software is video games. I am a big gamer, but I do not pirate video games: I buy a few big titles a year for big bucks, and I buy a great number of small, indie titles a year, for next to no money. There are also tons of free games. In general I find that I have more games than hours anyway, so there is no need to pirate. A few years ago I decided to boycott EA games; I thought that I might be tempted to pirate their games if a good title comes out. That has not happened in the few years since, so, no need to pirate.
Books, I enjoy from the library, mostly. They are not readily available for piracy anyhow.
I have a strange "blind spot" when it comes to shows, movies and TV though, mostly because of what rabidmonkey1 said, that the money goes to greedy execs anyway, not the people who created the things.