...additionally no one would ever find out guaranteed - and this person's death would benefit thousands of people.
The second part of this question; would you perform this very same crime if all the above were true with the exception of having to hold a knife in your hands and making it a more personal crime?
2007-03-24 07:36:22 · 15 answers · asked by Sweet Candy 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
About 40 years ago when I was young there was an older guy who liked the same girl that I liked. He was a lot bigger than me and several years older, and he liked to push me around and humiliate me in front of my friends. After a while I got to the point where I thought that I hated him.
He was in the army so most of the time he was not around. It got so bad that I would think about it as I lay in bed at night. I kept wishing that he was dead. Shortly after that It was in the paper that a mortar had landed on his tent and killed him instantly.
I was devastated, and for the rest of my life I never wished any harm on anyone again.
Love and blessings Don
2007-03-24 10:47:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it benefitted thousands of people because this person has been doing wrong to all of them enough to make them hate him or face problems that have long term consequences and scars that cannot be healed so easily with time, I could take the risk of killing him with knife too.
2007-03-24 14:40:18 · answer #2 · answered by Smriti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if i said yes to the first and no to the second, what does that mean. does it mean we want things fixed but we don't want to know about them or we want things fixed but in the right way. nobody has the right to take a life, no matter what the person has done, we are all human no matter what. a lesson has to be learnt from the person's mistakes and the people need to know the truth. my answer is no and no. i had to explain it.
2007-03-24 15:26:27 · answer #3 · answered by lifeoutsidethecircle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I wouldn't commit murder & why would anyone admit to this when the Police are cruising this site They do Ask a Guy
2007-03-24 14:40:40 · answer #4 · answered by hobo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, right out of The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock.
No. I don't accept the premise. If you are justified in killing someone, it is not murder.
2007-03-24 14:42:51 · answer #5 · answered by Kevin C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way I would commit murder would be to know with absolute certainty that I could get away with it.
2007-03-24 14:45:02 · answer #6 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by thinking of it half of this town would be gone -lol--but actually putting a knife in my hand , no, I would be over the rage by then--like counting to ten
2007-03-24 14:40:42 · answer #7 · answered by luminous 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that I would do both depending on the circumstances. I.e. the person--Hitler for example.
2007-03-24 14:39:31 · answer #8 · answered by Misty B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No and no.
Technically, suicide isn't the same as murder...... (just an after thought).
2007-03-28 12:26:58 · answer #9 · answered by Izen G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. And I'd be really scared of letting my mind wander!
2007-03-24 22:05:03 · answer #10 · answered by K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋