[Loukas]

Never say never. Well i wouldn't nomally say never but yeah NEVER

[xDramatick]

Kill someone in self-defence?
Only if my life, my boyfriend's, certain members of my family's, or my friends' lives were in danger.

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by 30stone

My brother comes home sometimes said i killed "x" amount of people today took their wallets to.

its wierd but he says it coz its gets a good reaction lol he was only joking.

id like spike to say weather he was joking or not, not have people answer for him, and if he has and your telling me he said hes not joking them Im wrong. and sorry.

I dont think he was joking.
But anyway, lets get back to the actual topic, I dont want any of the other forum members to get banned for answering back to Spike's posts....

[AngRemembered]

Killing someone in self defence is not murder.

[James]

The situation people have described here where they would take a life in self-defence or to protect their family aren't legally murder as the law recognises those (if I am correct).

The thread title should really be changed to something like 'Take a life' because we can't have threads about anything illegal.

For that reason some posts should be deleted from this thread too...

[Scarlett.]

Ok I'll change it

[pinkmichk]

nope i couldnt take a life say for example someone was coming towards me and my daughter with a knife i would put myself in front of her but i dont think i could even strike out in defense cos not sure i could live with that for the rest of my life

[AngRemembered]

Originally posted by pinkmichk
nope i couldnt take a life say for example someone was coming towards me and my daughter with a knife i would put myself in front of her but i dont think i could even strike out in defense cos not sure i could live with that for the rest of my life

perfect, of all the hyperthetical scenario's that were an ACTUAL option, this for me too would be the one I'd probably do most naturally, spontaneously at the very last second.

A great post pinkmichk

[Tom]

I feel guilty when I have to kill slugs in the garden, so I'd have no chance killing a person

[NettoSuperstar!]

If someone was coming for my kids or me with a knife I'd do whatever I could to stop them. I think I would go a bit mental if I did kill someone though. Murder no way not for any amount of money, anyone who thinks they would is ill

[ange7]

You all pretty much agree with each other. Lets make it a little tougher...
Here's a hypothetical moral/ethics dilemma.

Imagine your a biology professor and botanist at some uni. Your in a South American jungle collecting plants etc and your in an area where a civil war is raging. A ruthless dictator is using the army to round up and kill political opponents everywhere. You enter a small town and see that the commander of a small bunch of government troops has rounded up all the suspected freedom fighters in the village. In front of a firing squad all 30 are about to die but the commander sees you and calls you over.

Amazingly he recognises you, he once studied biology and was once a student of yours. In honour of you and on your pleading he decides to let all 30 go free.... provided you kill one of them. What do you do? If you do nothing all 30 will die... if you kill one of them in cold blood then the other 29 live. To complicate things the 30 men over hear the conversation and one of them, an 80 year old man, ask you to please pick him so that the rest of his family and friends might live.

So A.
do nothing, be passive and know that your hands are clean. You didn't kill those 30 people. They were going to be killed regardless.
Or B
actively save 29 innocent people by taking the life of the old man. Act and make a difference..but have his blood on your hands.

[NettoSuperstar!]

b

[NettoSuperstar!]

No wait C Id kill the ruthless dictator what am I thinking

[Tom]

Originally posted by NettoSuperstar!
No wait C Id kill the ruthless dictator what am I thinking

Same

But out of the options you gave it would be B, only because I'd rather live with the guilt of killing 1 person than being responsible for 30 people. But its not really a choice because if you dont people will die anyway, so either way death is involved.

[Billy]

yes it's called a friday night.









































im actually joking btw, im not billy the ripper

[lily.]

I would actively seek out and kill someone who had taken my children's lives. If someone took my kids' lives, I'd dedicate my life to taking theirs.

And, yes, it would be pre-meditated, and yes, I'd hand myself in to the police afterwards.

When I read the awful stories about fathers who murder their kids then fail to commit suicide, I wonder how the mother manages to carry on. I'd make it my mission in life to find him and kill him slowly.

Does that make me a sociopath? lol

[Lauren]

If someone murdered either of my parents, brothers, or boyfriend - then I would kill them, yes. I'd also hand myself in, because I'm not hiding from justice prevailing.

Edit: Just read Stroppy's post haha, too similar.

[lily.]

Scary!

*hums twilight zone theme tune* haha

[Chemicle]

I think if someone had killed someone really close to me, i would dedicate myself to taking their life too, i wouldn't stop until they were dead, then i would probably kill myself because i'd probably go insane knowing i had killed someone.

[Tom]

Would you not rather see someone who killed someone close to you suffer? Death is the easy way out IMO

[lily.]

Depends on how you kill them.

[Lauren]

Originally posted by Tom
Would you not rather see someone who killed someone close to you suffer? Death is the easy way out IMO

I thought explaining how I'd kill them and the duration would be a bit too explicit for the forum LOL.

Edit: Again, Linda... nearly the same!

[lily.]

Ok, now I'm scared. Do you think the world is ready for us Lauren? lol

[Lauren]

Originally posted by Stroppy
Ok, now I'm scared. Do you think the world is ready for us Lauren? lol

I have a feeling they're not We've managed to duplicate each others thoughts in a pretty twisted way.

[Tom]

Originally posted by Lauren

I thought explaining how I'd kill them and the duration would be a bit too explicit for the forum LOL.

Edit: Again, Linda... nearly the same!

Oh good, if you're killing them in a sadistic way then I'd be all for it