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?

Depends on the situation.

If it was kill or be killed then I'm certain my survival instinct would like override any other feelings.

@AnneElliott

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.

I'd have done the same. Must have been terrifying. Glad you and DS were safe

Yes. In self defence of course I could but I could also plan to and actually kill someone if they had hurt my kids. I wouldn't care if I got away with it or not, I wouldn't even try to dispose of the body (too much like hard work and chances are I'd be found out anyway) and I'd happily do the time if that was the outcome.

Yep, I would kill my father and have zero regrets and anyone who touched my child

Easily

Definitely. I would find it intriguing. But I'm somewhat of a sociopath.

@Number3BigCupOfTea

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

Hiring someone is surprisingly cheap. It's finding the right person that's harder.

And you get what you pay for, as with everything.

Thank you @sunnydaleslayer. It was pretty awful at the time. I think any parent would kill to save their children.

If you'd asked me before I had DC I would have said no.

Once I had a baby the Mama Bear in me was quite scary. I knew when he was 1 day old I could kill to protect him. It was a whole new emotion I'd never known before.

Thing is, I reckon lots of people think they could but couldn't in the event. I have rarely heard (not scientific!) of revenge killings and I think that's because there's a huge difference between feeling murderous rage and having to find a gun/knife and do the deed.

I am such a scary cat, I would worry that they would take ages to die and would kill me.

I have thought about whether I could kill my Mum. I always joke to my siblings that I couldn't 100% guarantee that if I found myself at the cliff edge with her one day, I wouldn't give her a shove. I guess that I wouldn't though.

I found it really... difficult when, in therapy, i realised that i could actually kill him and feel no remorse. That I could actually do that and not bat an eyelid.

That was really difficult for me. I guess because I've always thought of myself as an intrinsically good person and killing someone in cold blood... well that's bad, innit? I have come to terms with the fact that I am capable of killing him.

But he deserves it.

If someone did anything to hurt my wife or boys I would kill them.

I know exactly how I would do it, no mess and would be quick.

If it was defending me or my family in the moment I might give it my best shot but imagine I'd be the one that came of worse 😆. I'm probably not capable of it but there's a few people I'd not be sad if someone else did the job 👀😬

I could do it and i will if my brother comes for me again when he gets out of prison - hes already serving a measly 2 years for an attack on me and dh. Next time (and i know therell be a next time) 1 of us wont be walking away- and i dont plan on that being me.

If someone sexually abused my child I would get it arranged, yes.

If somebody was threatening the life of my children there’s nothing I wouldn’t do.

I read the thread title and thought ‘God no’.

I used to get upset on long road trips, seeing dead possums (pests) squashed on the road.

But actually, giving it some thought. Yes, I could. If someone seriously hurt my DC or DH. I reckon I could. Scarlett O’Hara style, with a pistol.

This thread has really stuck in my mind. I think my answer is different than it would have been a year ago, and I worry about what that means for me.

Normally my work and my life are centred around helping people who need it. I usually care about doing "what's right ". But I don't know if that's true anymore. Its awfully easy to think about how removing certain people from the planet would make the world a better place.

I think it is easy to say you would but most people probably wouldn't even if someone hurt their child as look at all the children who have been hurt and it is very rare that you hear about a parent killing the perpetrator. My fear would be that if I was with my children and someone pointed a gun at us that I would use the child as a shield to protect myself. You can't really tell how you will react in a situation until you are in it. I have a recurring dream where I have killed someone years ago and then new evidence has come to light and it is closing in on me. Also I was watching the News recently and there had been a discovery of remains from a murder 10 years ago in an area I used to live in and for about 5 minutes I was panicking that I had done it and blocked it from my mind. Can't imagine what it would be like if I had actually killed someone. Also that person, no ,after what they did, likely has an innocent family, and I wouldn't like to put anyone through that even if someone had put me through it.

Yeah, right now I could kill the guy playing the guitar upstairs. I think it would be quite easy

Yes.

I think it is easy to say you would but most people probably wouldn't even if someone hurt their child as look at all the children who have been hurt and it is very rare that you hear about a parent killing the perpetrator.

I totally get what you are saying, but I’m reading the question is - could you? Not would you.

I feel as if I could, if the circumstances were horrendous enough. But I wouldn’t, because it’s illegal and I’d risk being thrown in prison.

@Bluntness100 I just wanted to say that in that awful situation you were in then what you did could well be seen as self preservation. Sometimes not escalating the situation is what keeps you safe in that moment.

Yes to protect my children.

The difference is that while both men and women are capable mentally in certain circs, men have the advantage when it comes to carrying it out.

Possibly triggering If I could get away with killing my ex husband, without a doubt. The man put me through years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse. I have been raped, anally raped, forced to have an abortion and when I finally left - the shit kicked out of me. He now lives a very nice life while every day emotionally and medically I live with the things that were done to me. So yes I would love to fucking kill him.