Are you a potential murderer?
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Reckon you could do it? 
I often wonder, how is a convicted and guilty murderer any different in mind to you and I?
Let me get this straight first. I wouldn't class myself as the type of person who would intentionally kill somebody.
However, do we all pocess an ability to commit this act under certain circumstances?
And while we're at it, does anyone on here know any murderers or indeed has anyone on here ever murdered somebody?
I often wonder, how is a convicted and guilty murderer any different in mind to you and I?
Let me get this straight first. I wouldn't class myself as the type of person who would intentionally kill somebody.
However, do we all pocess an ability to commit this act under certain circumstances?
And while we're at it, does anyone on here know any murderers or indeed has anyone on here ever murdered somebody?
lazyitus said:
Reckon you could do it?
Not in cold blood. Not pre-meditated. Not actually murder no I couldn't.
Could I kill someone?
Possibly if there was absolutely, positively no other way and the benefit was to save other human life...and I'd have to be certain. Its a really difficult moral question...one which, thankfully, I am extremely unlikely ever to have to consider in anything other than a hypothetical scenario.
Boy am I grateful...
lazyitus said:
However, do we all pocess an ability to commit this act under certain circumstances?
I think we do.
Yes I reckon everyone on here could murder in appropriate circumstances, particularly for me would be in protecting my family as discussed in the burglary thread.
One of my acquaintances did a couple of years for manslaughter but that was a fight outside a club where the chap he hit died after falling back and banging his head on the pavement. Very nice guy though.
One of my acquaintances did a couple of years for manslaughter but that was a fight outside a club where the chap he hit died after falling back and banging his head on the pavement. Very nice guy though.
Anyone can. They just need the right trigger.
I used to work with mentally disabled adults(the violent kind) and we learned all about how it's just a case of pushing buttons. How many parents would find and kill someone who hurt their kids for example? Or how many of us would do the same to someone who hurt our parents?
It's just a button to be pushed, thing is on some people it's easier to find than others.
I used to work with mentally disabled adults(the violent kind) and we learned all about how it's just a case of pushing buttons. How many parents would find and kill someone who hurt their kids for example? Or how many of us would do the same to someone who hurt our parents?
It's just a button to be pushed, thing is on some people it's easier to find than others.
lazyitus said:
Reckon you could do it?
And while we're at it, does anyone on here know any murderers or indeed has anyone on here ever murdered somebody?
I used to know someone who subsequently I saw on crimewatch wanted for murder, scary stuff.
I think anyone given a certain series of events would be capable of murder.
You have to make sure to differentiate between murder and justifiable homicide; so anyone replying they could do in self-defence is not answering the question. Murder is defined (got my dictionary on my desk) as: "the unlawful premediated killing of a human being by another". I would like to think I'm not capable of that, but justifiable homicide on the other hand, to prevent grave harm befalling myself or another innocent, I do believe I would be capable of.
AlexH said:
You have to make sure to differentiate between murder and justifiable homicide; so anyone replying they could do in self-defence is not answering the question. Murder is defined (got my dictionary on my desk) as: "the unlawful premediated killing of a human being by another". I would like to think I'm not capable of that, but justifiable homicide on the other hand, to prevent grave harm befalling myself or another innocent, I do believe I would be capable of.
No murder is the crime of killing a person especially but not exclusively with malice aforethought. If the question was about pre-meditated murder then that would be different but I still think a lot of people would be capable of that as per the eaxmple above if someone hurt your kids.
Under the right provocation I think most people could. If not, why would there be murderers in jail?
The degree of provocation necessary would vary, but push hard enough and I think you could make a murderer of anyone. Fortunately, that degree of provocation rarely happens.
Although we live in a semi-civilised society, underneath, we are all still animals.
The degree of provocation necessary would vary, but push hard enough and I think you could make a murderer of anyone. Fortunately, that degree of provocation rarely happens.
Although we live in a semi-civilised society, underneath, we are all still animals.
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