everyone is capable of murder but just what would it take for you to commit murder??

Question

we are all animals at the end of the day and no matter what we say everyone is capable of murder, so just what would it take for you to kill someone???

Answer 1

Well my best friend had an affair with my husband, so I came pretty close.....but she fled to Australia before I found out. I wouldn't kill her, but I'd sure would have liked to have taken a swing at her at the time.....!
I would like to think that I didn't have the capacity to murder and I'm sure I don't. The only occasion where I would think I would struggle is if someone "can't even say it" to one of my daughters.
Other than that I'm pretty forgiving and accepting and believe love really can conquer most things.
: )

Answer 2

First of all, you are wrong.

1. We are not all animals at the end of the day. Maybe some of us are, but not all.

2. Everyone is capable of murder. Not true. Not everyone will get exposed to circumstances which will test a man's natural survival response. (fight or die)

3. Homicide will probably be the most natural response, and not murder.

Even the bible acknowledges that. Thou shalt not kill. Murder(intent and motive) is quite different since it will involve emotions such as jealousy, greed, (coveting another persons gold, or spouse) and hatred.

Now that all of that is clear, let us muddy it up again by saying, YUP people can commit homicide when their families are threatened or they are defending their own lives.

Answer 3

just to kill someone? been there done that and all for a paycheck. Not a hitman or anything, but i was a soldier before and spent a considerable amount of time in the middle east. I dont really blame those people over there. If they invaded here.. wouldnt you fight back? I do have a different outlook on life now. It is not something to boast about. Its pretty sick, and everyone you hurt has a family. Its a lot to think about. You only regret it when its over.

Answer 4

You're probably NOT going to like my answer, but here goes:

There is a true difference between "killing someone" and "murder"--you can kill someone in self-defense, or by accident, with absolutely no malice of forethought involved--simply negligence or a desire to defend oneself/someone else from harm. Many even argue that euthanasia ala Dr. Kevorkian's methods, should be legal, as it is done to honor another person's wish to die with dignity.

Murder is a different matter altogether, and while I agree that we're all animals, I do not believe that all animals--human or otherwise--are capable of murder. To murder someone would involve pre-planning to take someone's life for whatever reason and then to actually enact that plan. While many of us fantasize about "rubbing someone out", there is a discrepancy between fantasy and what we're actually capable of--which is why such fantasies remain unlived.

I work in a prison and I have heard many inmates concede that all of us are guilty of murder. Many years ago I, like most folks, accepted that statement without question. However, after a little critical thought, I wondered how such a statement could be made with certainty, and arrived at the conclusion that either A.) someone had enough information to factor every determinant of human behavior known and unknown into a psychological profile which would prove a person capable of heinously taking the life of another without provocation or threat of harm and then actually tested every person alive at that time and at all possible points in the future and found this to in fact be the case, or, B.) It's just one of those blanket "they say" type statements that many people (myself included) have heard and unquestioningly accept as a known fact (which it isn't). "They" say alot of things--most of those things happen to be wrong!

I had a close friend once who did something very stupid--he made a bomb threat to a hospital as a practical joke. Later when I asked him why he did it, he said that we are all capable of doing such stupid things! I figured that by saying that, he was enabling himself to assuage his own guilt, by projecting it onto others. This is a practice often indulged in by people guilty of infidelity and a number of other undesirable or sociopathic personality traits--if one can't feel justified by saying "well everybody else does it", then one can at least project the shadow of possiblity that "everyone else is capable of it"--this is common practice among sociopaths. Murderers are usually sociopaths, and I wonder myself if it was not a murderer who started such an inane presumption of a universal "guilt by capability" in the first place.

But okay here goes with your actual question. In order for me to MURDER someone, I think it would have to be a case where that someone was a reallly terrible person and was going to do something that would make the world absolutely miserable--and I was the only one who could stop it--and this person would absolutely NOT stop unless they were killed! Of course, this would involve an awful lot of "IF's" and in fact I would have to be omniscient to know the absoluteness of all these "IF's"--then I would be a God--and my killing them wouldn't be "murder" but rather, "divine intervention". God can kill whoever he likes--we must always presume him to be justified, right?

Answer 5

You are asking 2 separate questions. There is a difference between murdering someone and killing someone.

I would never murder anyone.

To kill...try and do harm to my family and I will do whatever is in my power to defend them. If that means that I would have to kill someone to protect them from dying or being seriously injured, I'm well within my rights to do so.

Answer 6

I do not have the right to judge. No human has the right to judge when the time of death is. The ability to murder was given to us in case of times of complete desperateness.

If I was in a time of complete desperateness, I would be driven to kill, but in no other way, whether for justice or no.

Answer 7

Animals only kill for food or in defence, as such they are not capable of murder
Murder requires Motive, Method, Means, and Malice aforethought.
I have and would again, kill in defence, of myself and family.

Answer 8

Being capable does not mean ever in any circumstance committing the act. Those are two very different things.

Answer 9

society and religion restrains us, we are all animals but we ar a special kind of animals. homo sapiens is thy name!

for stephen- who says "Animals only kill for food or in defence, as such they are not capable of murder"
killing a person intentionally is murder, i think you confused non punishment due to motive of self defence for murder. besides killing someone for he motive of food is not self defence. even killing someone in defence is not always non-guilty due to slf defnce. self defence applies when there is a reasonably clear and direct dange of loss of life from an individual.

Answer 10

The only thing I can think of that would lead me to kill another human would be if someone caused great harm to my daughter, or was about to.