If someone asked you to kill them

cloud493 · 15-01-2012 2:06pm #1

Would you, if someone came up to you right. And asked you to kill them. You don't really know this person, casual acquaintance say, you have no emotional investment with them. They have some sort of incurable disease that will kill them slowly, and painfully. And they ask you to kill them, to spare them from this. There'd be no legal consequences, so to speak, you couldn't be arrested for murder or what have you. Would you?

phasers · 15-01-2012 2:07pm

you couldn't be arrested for murder

Fairly sure you could, if not for murder then for something else.

cherryghost · 15-01-2012 2:08pm

No, I'd be horribly scarred for life. Plus I'm not good with the whole blood thing.

cloud493 · 15-01-2012 2:08pm

Hypothetical scenario. In which you could not be arrested for murder. Its legally sanctioned, one time. Or something.

RickRoll · 15-01-2012 2:11pm

Yeah sure, for a small fee.

BunShopVoyeur · 15-01-2012 2:11pm

I'd tell them to ask a family member or friend.......but I'd always remember with fondness the lunatic who approached me on the street and asked me to kill them.

Millicent · 15-01-2012 2:12pm

I'd probably bring them to Switzerland, let someone who knows what they're doing sort it out.

Ghandee · 15-01-2012 2:15pm

No, a life is a life.

Couldn't live with my self in the knowledge that I ended another human beings life.

My name is URL · 15-01-2012 2:16pm

You don't really know this person, casual acquaintance say, you have no emotional investment with them

Then why would you want to do it? If you had no emotional attachment to them to begin with then it'd make no sense to do it. You'd have to live with it for the rest of your life.. whether it was the right thing to do or not. So you'd end up investing emotions in the person one way or another.

Millicent · 15-01-2012 2:16pm

Ghandee wrote: »

No, a life is a life.

Couldn't live with my self in the knowledge that I ended another human beings life.

Would you have a problem with someone else helping them commit suicide or is it just that you couldn't do it?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 15-01-2012 2:19pm

I'd facilitate and aid them as much as possible, but the actual act would have to be committed by themselves.

Shanotheslayer · 15-01-2012 2:21pm

As I've no emotional investment I would not see the point in me doing it personally.

But I do think that Euthansia should be allowed under special circumstances and whatnot.

Immaculate Pasta · 15-01-2012 2:26pm

They'd have to pay me a lot of money for me to even consider doing it :cool:

Kevin Duffy · 15-01-2012 2:32pm

I'd kill them before they even asked.

ImpossibleDuck · 15-01-2012 2:47pm

cloud493 wrote: »

Would you, if someone came up to you right. And asked you to kill them. You don't really know this person, casual acquaintance say, you have no emotional investment with them. They have some sort of incurable disease that will kill them slowly, and painfully. And they ask you to kill them, to spare them from this. There'd be no legal consequences, so to speak, you couldn't be arrested for murder or what have you. Would you?

This might sound incredibly psychopathic but here goes: Yes. Definitely. Just to feel what it's like to kill a man. I'm not saying this would be a good feeling, just a feeling that you simply cannot get in any other circumstances.

So...ahh...which way is the psychiatric ward? :pac:

wolf moon · 15-01-2012 2:51pm

No, I would not.

paulosham · 15-01-2012 2:51pm

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

This might sound incredibly psychopathic but here goes: Yes. Definitely. Just to feel what it's like to kill a man. I'm not saying this would be a good feeling, just a feeling that you simply cannot get in any other circumstances.

Just a man? What, do you have you got a problem with killing women?

ImpossibleDuck · 15-01-2012 2:56pm

paulosham wrote: »

Just a man? What, do you have you got a problem with killing women?

Figured someone would say that. Kudos for the originality

On second thought though, in response to the OP, I would probably just tell them that I could not be trusted to do it as I'd probably just make a balls of it and they'd be left in a hospital bed somewhere with half a head.

Hobbes · 15-01-2012 2:59pm

cloud493 wrote: »

Would you, if someone came up to you right. And asked you to kill them. You don't really know this person, casual acquaintance say, you have no emotional investment with them. They have some sort of incurable disease that will kill them slowly, and painfully. And they ask you to kill them, to spare them from this. There'd be no legal consequences, so to speak, you couldn't be arrested for murder or what have you. Would you?

I watched Fletch the other day as well.

Galwayguy35 · 15-01-2012 3:05pm

No i wouldnt. But on the other hand if it was Brian Cowen...

Indubitable · 15-01-2012 3:27pm

As long as it is with a gun or something similarly quick.

charlemont · 15-01-2012 3:31pm

No one knows what's on the other side and killing someone is going to have consequences.

Ghandee · 15-01-2012 3:45pm

Millicent wrote: »

Would you have a problem with someone else helping them commit suicide or is it just that you couldn't do it?

Just me personally couldn't do it.

Am not a religious nut or anything, but I believe the man above doesn't take kindly to bumping off other people lol.

VinnyTGM · 15-01-2012 4:58pm

I would help, I'd make them do the awesome.

cloud493 · 15-01-2012 6:54pm

Hobbes wrote: »

I watched Fletch the other day as well.

What's fletch?

leeroybrown · 15-01-2012 6:56pm

Nah. I only kill people once I've gotten to know them. Killing is just too impersonal without the emotional connection.

Johnny Foreigner · 15-01-2012 7:04pm

No problem.
I would feel nothing doing it.

eyesquirm · 15-01-2012 7:04pm

They have some sort of incurable disease that will kill them slowly, and painfully.

No point asking me to do it then. It would be faster and less painful to let the disease run its course.

Josephine O Beirnes · 15-01-2012 7:08pm

The words be only out of their mouths and they be dead, i wouldnt have a problem with it to be honest,

silasrat · 15-01-2012 7:12pm

You should read crime and punishment.....

eyesquirm · 15-01-2012 7:13pm

I was going to say we should put a thumbs down button next to the thumbs up button, but the post has been removed.

Someone was on the ball.

Carter P Fly · 15-01-2012 7:52pm

BOOM headshot.

If I had complete and utter clear amnesty against all possible charges for assisting someone sure I's do it.

Hobbes · 15-01-2012 8:04pm

cloud493 wrote: »

What's fletch?

How old are you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZBBXJIzn1I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletch_(film)

cloud493 · 15-01-2012 8:35pm

Hobbes wrote: »

How old are you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZBBXJIzn1I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletch_(film)

Only 18 I'm afraid

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