Could you kill someone?

[Mollyiere]

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

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

@WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants

Guess you won't need the hitman fund.

Hopefully it was slow & painful at least. Bastard.
Thanks for the offer, much appreciated! 😂

I've spent many hours lying awake at night over the years praying it was slow and painful.

@Whyareblokesonhere

not without breaking my new years resolution, I've been doing so well to keep it this year as well

🤣

I could - I've been in a situation where I picked up a weapon to defend myself as I had no other way out - luckily didn't need to use it, buy no doubt I would. Whether I actually have the strength to kill someone else with a knife or similar I don't know.

In self defence maybe or if protecting my children. Sometimes I wonder if some one commuted a serious crime against my children whether I could. Sometimes when I read things about paedophiles or murders I think I would kill them if they do that to my kids.

Yes. Yes i could.

It's only the fact that if i was in prison i wouldn't be able to see my children that stops me.

I have one specific person in mind and through therapy* i have come to realise that i have the ability to kill him and not think twice about it. If I happened to see him in the street i honestly do not know what i'd do or how i'd react to him. But, i want him dead.

*more therapy may be required.

If someone broke into my home and attacked my kids I'd kill the intruder no doubt about it

Yes.
I’d love to kill the kindly person who sexually abused me as a child (not rape) because he set me up for a life of being a push over with abusive men. Thankfully he’s already dead.
Then I would love to kill the Nan who raped me, the two who threatened to rape me and finally the doctor who sexually assaulted me and deliberately tried to hurt my DC because I told my DH what he’d done to me.
I dream about pounding the latter’ ahead in with a baseball bat. If I didn’t have my DC to worry about- I would

I'm quite surprised how varied the responses are on here - it's very interesting!

Those of you who would have troubled consciences after killing someone in defence of yourself or a loved one are obviously much better people than me!

Yes.

@SomethingWitchy

I would kill to protect my sons. It wouldn’t weigh heavily on my conscience. Self-protection/protection of offspring is a primal motivator and under circumstances where you or your children are fatally threatened, killing the aggressor to halt an attack would be carried out - particularly by parents.

I'm sorry to hear that so many people have had truly awful experiences with people who, judging by the trauma and horror and lifelong pain they've caused, deserve to suffer greatly themselves.

And I'm sorry also if this thread has stirred up awful memories and emotions.

You cannot possibly say conclusively either way. I can easily imagine killing someone who was, say, in the process of trying to kill or abduct my child.

However whether I could actually physically go through with making sure that person is literally dead? I don't know the answer to that.

And equally if you think you are sure that you would never ever kill someone no matter what the circumstances then obvs you can't be sure of that either!

I'd like to think that I would never kill anyone.

Gosh sorry I had not RTFT and my comment seems very out of place in the face of all this trauma

Of course we are all capable of killing. We are animals.
However, because of socialisation, women don't take to it in any way as much as men.

No. Nothing is worth spending the rest of my life in a cell for.

Yes, because I'm human. I would need an ethical basis but it's possible.

Well I’ve been a vegetarian since the age of 12 when I fully understood how meat was produced, and I have gadgets to remove spiders and wasps instead of killing them (not moths though l don’t mind catching them in loo roll and flushing them) but in self defence or to protect DH or my DC, absolutely. I just hope I’m a fight rather than freeze type if it ever came down to it!

Sure for the right price.

My fees are actually very reasonable, should anyone be interested.

Absolutely Yes. Wouldn't do it for the fun of it but if it needed doing I'd have no qualms about it.

If it was heat of the moment self preservation or someone had harmed my kids and I was in the position to react there and then then yes I could in my opinion.

I could never see myself premeditating murder though.

Interesting @champagnecommunist we are all answering along the lines of 'we lose control' but it does make me think, is there an amount of money I would kill for? I don't think so because I could not be free from anxiety ever afterwards, but ... that's just me.
There are people out there in who kill for money and then just get on with it afterwards

Yes

@BigPaperBag

No. Nothing is worth spending the rest of my life in a cell for.

and even if you're not caught, the thoughts that would go round in your head, if you weren't a sociopath!

In defence of myself or my DS maybe but it would haunt me for the rest of my life

Yes in self defence. I was subjected to an attempted car jacking. As DS was in the car I wasn't prepared to risk stopping the car and I drove at one of the perpetrators- prepared to knock him over and kill him rather than risk anything happening to DS. Luckily, perpetrator jumped into a ditch.