If the purge happened in real life...

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What do you think you would do?

For those not in the know, the purge is a film/tv program where American citizens are able to commit all crime for 12 hours, once a year.

I would like to say I would be out there stealing money to set my family for life but I probably would be hiding at home making sure my family are safe.

You?

Are you not worried about being victims of rape? I suspect that would be a popular one...

I suppose if you purged them on purge night, you could then steal their inheritance anyway.

But it’s supposed to be an honour to be purged so I suppose you would get it anyway

@RumpoleoftheBaileys I thought that. Purge night is every person for themselves and do is this thread it seems!

Sorry have seen that Ponoka already mentioned it. That is why even the ads for the film made me shudder....

I find the Purge concept fascinating. I've seen all the films and am now watching season Two of the show on AP.

The thing is that a society that implemented the Purge would collapse very quickly. The anxiety an annual Purge night would create over behaviour and relationships, personal and business, for the other 364 days of the year would cripple any kind of normal economic or social functioning. A ridiculously over-polite system of social, cultural and civic customs would develop as everyone tried desperately not to piss other people off.

Just imagine it. That every time you interacted with another person, you might inadvertently cause said person to try to purge you on Purge night. How would you navigate going to the supermarket, knowing that if you accidentally knock your trolley into someone who is having a bad day, they may legally come after you with lethal force later? How the hell could you deal with the workplace? Knowing someone might want your job?

And think about the potential child homicide rates?

People psychologically wouldn't be able to cope. They just wouldn't.

You can't run a society where the top echelon are the most violent sadistic sociopaths.

I'd be off wild camping with my children and dogs in a remote area away from everything and everyone.

This, I'd make plans to be elsewhere.

Perhaps a boat out in international waters.

My zombie plan is to go and camp out in one of the forts in the Solent, so I'd probably do the same for this but with less stockpiling of food etc.

You'd have a great advantage point to take them out if anyone got anywhere near.

Well I’d never heard of it and am watching it now!

Low level crime wise I guess it would be like the riots a few years a go? - for a lot of people all fear of getting caught seemed to vanish and then there were reactively few arrests at the start due to the scale of it.

The idea is scary. I don’t have anyone I’d like to injure. I guess I’d barricade myself in my house but wouldn’t people just be setting fire to houses everywhere?

I would go and steal some very expensive things, then sell them.
I'd steal a top of the range expensive car as I can't afford to fix mine.

But hypothetically why would expensive cars exist if you knew that they could all be stolen one night a year? Why would dealerships bother if they could be ransacked? - and why would anyone spend 80k on a car they could try and steal next purge night or at least buy stolen after?

I mean, nothing would exist as we know it would it?

I’d be too scared to do anything to people, no matter how much I hate them. I would go on a shoplifting spree, and get loads of stuff

I'd sit upstairs manning the windows and chuck homemade petrol bombs at anyone that approached. I'd send a very nice note to my nearest and dearest beforehand so they know not to visit on that date though.

I think a lot of people would kill their husband/wife then inherit their wealth.
The same of step parents and parents, so as to inherit their wealth.
Then there are siblings who would kill.
Sex offenders would kill so as to avoid detection.
Some parents would kill their offspring when they got with a new partner.
I suppose the list is endless.

Easy.

Lock house down as much as possible and go abroad a few days before.

Might put a hit out on one particular person but wouldn’t do it myself.

Can’t people do random act of niceness instead? 💐 💞 🐰 🌞 🐶 🐱 💃

I would purge my neighbours so hard! And enjoy it.
Ive enjoyed this franchise Of films/series the most.

To retaliate to all rude customers at work...

I'd count up every time in one week my neighbours slammed their doors so hard my fucking house shakes and then stamp on their faces that exact amount of times. I'd enjoy every second of it.
They're currently causing my bed to shake and I'm on the other side of the house that isn't attached. I dream of beating the living shit out of them - she's a waste of breath and he's an abusive arsehole.
I'd spend my whole 12hrs just on them 😄.

@Doormat247. I love how you’ve clearly thought about that more than once. I know exactly how you feel and would help you once I’d finished with my own fuckwit neighbours

@ringme I probably think about it every day .
I'll happily give you a hand with your delightful neighbours too

I'd be repeatedly flushing Michael Gove's head down the toilet.

I'd also take my friend's gluttonous, abusive ex out for a huge lunch in cheap Brewers Fayre type place so he ate so much he couldn't move, then I'd send him for a swim in the North Sea.