If you could kill anyone

<p>“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in punishment.”</p>

<p>Haha this is an interesting thread… it just goes to show how intense and intellectual everyone here on CC is, when I first read the thread title, I thought of people like Justin Bieber, but here you all are arguing about the ramifications of murdering Osama bin Laden XD</p>

<p>^^ <3</p>

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<p>Necrobump but this is the stupidest post I’ve ever read. Say I shot your parents right now and killed you and your infant brother (let’s say you have one) for good measure. why did you all deserve to die?</p>

<p>I wouldn’t kill anyone.</p>

<p>Probably Glenn Beck. You might say that no one deserves to die, but this guy is just ****ed up. He actually has people believing that the government is going to make them slaves. I mean LITERAL slaves. Not punk rock “corporate drones”, but actual slaves.</p>

<p>Public hangings, firing sqauds, lethal injection ftw</p>

<p>To answer OP’s question:</p>

<p>Probably myself or my brother. No reason in particular, besides the fact that very few will be affected or have a reason to grieve at our deaths. Plus, it’ll save folks money in the long run.</p>

<p>^ You can’t be serious, right?</p>

<p>Fred Phelps maybe? But he’s going to die soon anyways.</p>

<p>Kim Jong-Il?</p>

<p>Meh. It doesn’t actually matter is these people die. As someone before mentioned, they will simply be replaced.</p>

<p>I don’t have the guts or motivation to kill anyone though. =/</p>

<p>^^Well, that usually depends on my frame of mind. When I am feeling sane, then that post would not apply.</p>

<p>^Let nature do its job.</p>

<p>-Shakes head- The question isn’t “who deserves to die,” it’s “if you could kill anyone…” and I assume the rest to be “who would it be?” So, to me, that implies an abandonment of one’s morals, since it’s a completely hypothetical situation. Therefore, the question of deserving doesn’t matter.</p>

<p>Btw, my answer is, hm, let’s see…Yeah Glenn Beck sounds good.</p>

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<p>To abandon morals, one would have had to have them in the first place.</p>

<p>From the looks of things, people on here have morals.
If you don’t have any, you can’t answer this question.</p>

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<p>If you have no morals, then you can answer this question (i.e. who would you kill) directly.</p>

<p>But yes, I agree with you on the “deserves to die” front. It’s no one’s job to determine that.</p>

<p>No, because then you couldn’t make a real “decision.” In order to decide who you’d kill, you have to have values of some kind. The only way you’d do it is randomly, but that’s not a “decision.”</p>

<p>you guys are taking this way too seriously lol, just a thought</p>

<p>No I agree
I just can’t wait for World Lit honors next year. I know the teacher, and this is going to be a good part of the class >D</p>

<p>I feel like I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if i didn’t take the opportunity to bump anyone off. I mean obviously I wouldn’t kill an innocent, but the chance to kill [and not risk myself or national security or anything like that] someone who hates and murders and instigates genocide? I don’t know about you, but I’d have more issues with my conscience for not ensuring some small measure of peace and safety to people than for taking a life.</p>

<p>I would kill if it meant saving more life than the one lost, in accordance with justice, as in the one I was killing was intentionally trying to cause the death of multiple others for selfish, cruel, irrational, prejudiced reasons, and I would possibly kill in self-defense if there was no other possible way to save myself. Even though i don’t like the idea of taking someone’s life, when other lives are at stake I try to approach it statistically (assuming that the person I’m killing is in the wrong, otherwise I don’t know what I’d do).</p>

<p>But at the same time I’ve never been in this situation, so I might just chicken out and do nothing. Hopefully I’ll never have to make this decision.</p>