Just something I thought of when reading the Moral Debate about $1,000,000 for killing someone.
If there was a situation where someone that you could not harm (e.g. behind bulletproof glass or in another country) forced you to kill another person in exchange for your own life, would you do it? Like if you had an explosive collar around your neck or something, and the person threatening your life will remove it if you kill someone else. Would you all do that?
Just curious (random thought, etc...)
of course
i mean not if i had to like travel the country to find a specific dude and slay him
i would if we were in some chamber of duel arena and there were no consequences
Yes, provided I didn't know the person personally and I could choose how to kill him/her.
I cant imagine anyone would just refuse to kill someone to the point of just sitting there and letting themselves die.
Depending on who the other person was.
if it was someone that i didnt know/like yes i would
Yeah if they where a scumbag/criminal and I didn't know them.
Depends on how much I like them. Close friend? Yeah I'd kill them. IMO there should only be 3-4 people tops that you wouldn't kill to save yourself.
Sure would!
I would kill him of course, I mean I would want to see my family again, he would too probably both innocent people. However both want to live, and want to escape.
I wouldn't go down without a fight, and I'm completely sure the other guy wouldn't as well.
No, my right to life does not exceed any other person's right to life, however much I value my own.
If the other person would be in the same situation as me, then yes. I wouldn't care at that point who it was, it's a law of nature, really, and if I don't kill, I'll be killed.
If the person is just there, maybe even tied up and I'm given a knife at gunpoint, then yes. I still have a life to live.
If I had to personally hunt the person down, I'd have some freedom to rebel against the one making the threat.
[QUOTE=Lonestriper;36465754]No, my right to life does not exceed any other person's right to life, however much I value my own.[/QUOTE]
I think, eventhough this is your opinion, you probably would do it if you had this choice.
Surviving is just a human instinct. We do what we must to survive so given the chance, I'd say most people would kill another to save their own skin
I probably would, I know I wouldn't like to, but to save my life, yes.
[QUOTE=DoubleDD;36465873]I think, eventhough this is your opinion, you probably would do it if you had this choice.
Surviving is just a human instinct. We do what we must to survive so given the chance, I'd say most people would kill another to save their own skin[/QUOTE]
I'm not so sure of that, luckily I won't have to make that decision so it can stay in the hypothetical realm
I wouldn't take another man's life to save my own.
I'd rather kill both.
Who ever it is, at a moment like that it's likely EVERYONE will be putting self-preservation first.
No I don't think it's particularly right and comes with an animalistic mentality that I refuse to indulge. And hey, maybe death by exploding collar would be fun.
Hell no, I'm not that afraid of death. If it were a slow and painful death that awaited me, I'd probably reconsider at some point in the process of being killed, but since by that time it would probably be too late to change my mind, it doesn't matter.
[QUOTE=prooboo;36464945]Depends on how much I like them. Close friend? Yeah I'd kill them. IMO there should only be 3-4 people tops that you wouldn't kill to save yourself.[/QUOTE]
u dont have very close friends then. i'd kill, destroy and go to jail for my mates if the situation requires - never would i harm 'em
[QUOTE=Elexar;36470607]u dont have very close friends then. i'd kill, destroy and go to jail for my mates if the situation requires - never would i harm 'em[/QUOTE]
Wow, so if people don't feel the same way as you they must not have any friends, classy.
[QUOTE=Lonestriper;36465754]No, my right to life does not exceed any other person's right to life, however much I value my own.[/QUOTE]
What? So if someone is about to kill you, you would let them?
[QUOTE=assassin_Raptor;36470931]What? So if someone is about to kill you, you would let them?[/QUOTE]
I think that's a different matter, I'm fairly sure this is about would you kill an innocent man to save yourself.
Why of course, I treasure my life above everyone else accept for my younger family members, they would be the only ones I couldn't kill.
I'm going to be quite egoistic in my opinion because in most of the cases you have to make this choice, it would have to be done in a quick manner and you usually do not have time to think about other people.
Depends who the person was really. If the other person was a respected figure, then probably not. It also depends on how I'm going to die and how the other person is going to die if I choose.
Yes I would kill someone to save myself, maybe not my family though.
[QUOTE=prooboo;36464945]Depends on how much I like them. Close friend? Yeah I'd kill them. IMO there should only be 3-4 people tops that you wouldn't kill to save yourself.[/QUOTE]
I like how you picked out a close friend to be the first example of someone you would kill
and the fact that you seem proud of it like you're some stone cold killer
in a heartbeat
as long as it's not like my mom or cat or girlfriend or something
Of course.
When it comes down to it, if you die so that someone else may live, you're not going to be around to see the benefit of that. But if you kill someone else to live, then hey, you're alive. Being alive is awesome.
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