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Could you kill someone?

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Mollyiere · 03/03/2021 22:23

I was just watching a programme where a man said something like "obviously we all the ability to kill inside us, it happens everyday". Hmm

Anyway - then I started wondering if I actually could do it. Could you?

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AnneLovesGilbert · 03/03/2021 22:33

Definitely. I wouldn’t enjoy it but if the situation required it. And I’m a vegetarian who doesn’t kill spiders Grin

Weedsnseeds1 · 03/03/2021 22:34

Yes, I think I could. Probably not in a pre-meditated fashion, but in self defence, yes.

Number3BigCupOfTea · 03/03/2021 22:34

No. Sometimes I have nightmares that I've killed somebody and they're really disturbing.

FenceSplinters · 03/03/2021 22:35

Yes. I have a list.

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Mollyiere · 03/03/2021 22:35

@Whyareblokesonhere

not without breaking my new years resolution, I've been doing so well to keep it this year as well
Grin We're only just into March - you've still got 9 months in which to restrain yourself
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Mollyiere · 03/03/2021 22:36

@FenceSplinters

Yes. I have a list.
How long is it? Smile
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firstimemamma · 03/03/2021 22:36

If I needed to protect my family then yes.

caringcarer · 03/03/2021 22:36

If someone attacked my children and I genuinely feared they would kill them, then yes I could pull a trigger if I had a gun in my hand. I might even force myself to stab a person with a knife, although I would find that harder, to save one of my children.

FenceSplinters · 03/03/2021 22:37

@Mollyiere double figures.

Keepmekeeping · 03/03/2021 22:37

When my gran was dying very slowly if U could have not my hands on some morphine I would have killed her it was inhumane how she was allowed to linger.

If in defence I could Kill someone.

If someone put me in a room with a gun and a pedophile I'm pretty sure I could kill them.

Just because I hated someone no I couldn't.

Pancake4life · 03/03/2021 22:38

its taking everything I've got to not kill my neighbour right now

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Mollyiere · 03/03/2021 22:38

I'm reevaluating my answer!

Some years ago we were broken into overnight (while we were all here). I remember the feeling of utter fury I had - I wanted to go out and chase them. Dh had to restrain me.

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Mollyiere · 03/03/2021 22:40

@Pancake4life

its taking everything I've got to not kill my neighbour right now
Ask Fence if you can put them on her list ...

And sorry you've got horrible neighbours. I'm

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VettiyaIruken · 03/03/2021 22:40

I think that anyone is capable, it just depends on the situation. Eg your own survival, the survival of your children etc

SenecaTrewe · 03/03/2021 22:42

If someone harmed DD I would not hesitate to kill them.

Sunnyday321 · 03/03/2021 22:42

To defend self or family then of course yes . It would be much easier to do it impersonally such as shooting, or perhaps running over in a car . To state someone in the eye as you are doing it like strangulation or stabbing would be hard to do especially as most would be stronger than me , and I'd probably be the one that died !

TotorosFurryBehind · 03/03/2021 22:44

In defence of my child, yes. I found this aspect of becoming a mother scary, she is everything, I would do anything to protect her.

VegetarianDeathCult · 03/03/2021 22:44

Absolutely. I think it’s hopelessly naive to believe otherwise. Even leaving aside the context of being conscripted/signing up and trained to kill in wartime, as many ordinary men did — and three of my great-uncles who fought in WWI lived long enough for me to know how ordinary they were — I have family members who fought in the war of independence and the Irish civil war and at least one who lived into my lifetime killed a neighbour he’d known all his life in that conflict.

Why would I be any different?

Faith50 · 03/03/2021 22:44

In the right circumstances. I would not hesitate to protect close family.

I think we are capable of far more than we believe ourselves to be.

DioneTheDiabolist · 03/03/2021 22:44

Not sure if I could murder someone but I'm pretty sure I could kill someone.

tsmainsqueeze · 03/03/2021 22:45

To protect my child ,yes in a heartbeat and i don't think i would have a problem dealing with it afterwards either.

TrainspottingWelsh · 03/03/2021 22:47

In defence yes. From a mercy/ euthanasia perspective I probably could, obviously dependent on the circumstances and consequences.
I imagine I'd also be reasonably capable in a combat/ disaster like scenario, I have adhd and I suspect the adrenaline and impulsiveness would take over when it came to survival. (Not that my impulsive behaviour usually takes the form of killing people)

ParkheadParadise · 03/03/2021 22:47

Yes, I think I could.
Months after my dd died. I was sitting at traffic lights in my hometown when the bastard who took her life crossed the road he looked happy and was laughing. I wasn't in a good place mentally at the time. For a split second, I nearly put my foot on the accelerator and killed both of us. The only thing that stopped me was dd2. She was a couple of months old and in the back in her car seat. I didn't drive for weeks after that.
After the trial, I thought seriously about paying someone to do him in.

Mrsrightagain · 03/03/2021 22:48

I would of someone deliberately harmed my children.

oil0W0lio · 03/03/2021 22:50

No, killing is too good for them!