Hypothetically speaking . . .
If you could kill someone and get away with it (it is GUARANTEED that you will NOT ever be caught) would you?
What if you had to look them in the face first?
What if you had a magic button that could kill anyone in the world and it couldn’t be traced to you? You could just think of the person, say their name and push the button and they would drop dead? Would you use this button?
morally… No
for the sake of humanity (hitler type)… sure.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Haha!
Eh, I don’t think I would. It’s a step backwards as humans. Plus even if I did get away with it, I’m one of those ‘what goes around comes around’ types. So eventually the universe would pwn my ass for such an act.
Plus even if I did get away with it, I’m one of those ‘what goes around comes around’ types. So eventually the universe would pwn my ass for such an act.
That’s kinda where I’m at with it.
But I’ll admit that I have a sick mind and think about this kind of shit all the time. I used to fantasize about some sick shit when I was 7-8 years old. Texas Chainsaw Massacre type shit long before I knew the name Leatherface. Despite this character defect I’m really a good dude when it all comes down to it. I think plenty of us have sick thoughts that we know we’d never act upon. But sometimes I really feel like shit for some of the things that pop up in my head.
Yes. And I’d have no issues looking her in the face while I did it. Kinda like Grumpy’s Hitler thing…
Someone already tried too in September, but didn’t complete his attempt. He’s in jail now.
Note to Feds: This is hypothetical. I have no intention of doing anything.
Yes. And I’d have no issues looking her in the face while I did it. Kinda like Grumpy’s Hitler thing…
Someone already tried too in September, but didn’t complete his attempt. He’s in jail now.
Note to Feds: This is hypothetical. I have no intention of doing anything.
I just read most of that article… you may wanna retract that, it said all percieved threats… good thing you didn’t post her name. What’s her deal? Why is she so hated? You think someone else will try too? I alway thought canadians were nice and jolly people!
Late,
grmpysmrf
Attempted Murder Derp Face!!!
Attempted Murder Derp Face!!!
You talking to me?
Attempted murder what? That’s why everyone hates her? She tried to kill someone?
Late,
grmpysmrf
No, I was commenting on the picture in the article…
No. Although there are several people who the world would be better without, it’s not my place. I also think taking a life, any life, takes a psychic toll.
I think what a I like about this Prongs group is people actually take a bit of thought and care into a topic like this. Other sites I’d likely get a bunch of juiced up machomen screaming, “Yeah, I wanna kill a bunch of people, huh huh huh!!!”
I pondered this question a bit over the day and I think that I would NOT want a magical button of death. The power to just go in my closet, push a button, and make someone die it’s just too much for me to take. There’s no COST for killing someone and that scares me. It’s just too damn easy and I don’t think taking a life should be easy.
I would kill someone, though, in the “you can get away with it” scenario. And taking the “even if you had to look the person in the face” stipulation a bit further I think I would kill someone ONLY if I could look them in the face. There are human bacteria and scum that come across the planet from time to time and I think if I could come to the point of rationalization where I have decided that this particular person either only brings hurt and devastation to the world or that the destruction caused by this person is irreprehensible and cannot be forgiven or overcompensated . . . .
Yes, I would put a gun in that person’s face and say, “Hi, my name is Gunnar. Your murderous and raping ways have brought pain and suffering to this world and you have been found to be unredeemable and unfit for this world. Today your life has been judged and I am here to take it!” and I would pull that trigger and wath his/her face get destroyed like a watermelon with an M-80 in it.
I have no idea what the psychological toll, if any, would be if I were to execute someone. But the people who would make their way onto my list are such that I am willing to deal with the side effects. Like I noted earlier, I don’t think killing should be “free” or easy.
I sometimes think about our so-called “justice system” and how there really isn’t a whole lot of justice most of the time. Instead we get a back-and-forth moral-high-ground ping pong match . . . . “It’s not the state’s right to play God! The death penalty is immoral!” . . . . “Eye for an Eye! Tooth for a tooth! Fry 'em all like fish!” And so the debates go on, ad infinitum and the death-penalty opponents say, “It doesn’t give justice to the victims.” Or they note that it does not provide peace to the survivors. But there’s just as many survivors that are haunted and horrified that such human scum is even allowed to sit in a 6 foot cage and get a meal every day.
I know it would never happen, but I love to think of ways to re-invent portions of our society and the justice system is one of those topics that I feel could use a bit more creativity, compassion, and imagination.
If someone raped and murdered my child, I would not only want the criminal dead, I would feel it is owed to me. I totally think we should give the power back to the victims of these crimes. If you are willing to look said cretin (I’m speaking of a tried and convicted, beyond-any-shadow-of-doubt guilty type of person) in the face and see into his/her eyes as you killl them and are willing to live with that, I say why not?
I sometimes think about our so-called “justice system” and how there really isn’t a whole lot of justice most of the time.
Mumia Abu-Jamal has a nice little take on this. He says there are no courts of justice. You will only find courts of law but laws and justice are different.
Laws are made to keep poor people in their place and let the wealthy continue to be so.
For example sleeping under a bridge is against the law. Who is more likely to need to sleep under a bridge? A rich person or a poor person?
You also see how the death penalty is disproportionately applied to poor people over wealthy people. for example OJ charged with double murder had the death penalty taken off of the table before the trial even started. Same with the the Dupont aire that killed an olympian because he wouldn’t be his gay lover. death penalty pulled off the table before the trial even started.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Yes.
I want to do many things.
Will I do many of them?
Dunno.
I would murder a cold beer right now
I would murder a cold beer right now
Mumia Abu-Jamal has a nice little take on this. He says there are no courts of justice. You will only find courts of law but laws and justice are different.
Yeah, convicted cop killers always say stuff like that.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal has a nice little take on this. He says there are no courts of justice. You will only find courts of law but laws and justice are different.
Yeah, convicted cop killers always say stuff like that.[/reply]
Yeah cause everyone convicted of whatever they’re accused of always did it…
Like these people
Johnny Frank Garrett
Wayne Felker
Thomas and Meeks Griffin
Carlos DeLuna
Tom Robinson
Late,
grmpysmrf
Yeah cause everyone convicted of whatever they’re accused of always did it…
Like these people
Johnny Frank Garrett
Wayne Felker
Thomas and Meeks Griffin
Carlos DeLuna
Tom Robinson
Late,
grmpysmrf
Tom Robinson?
Are you seriously trying to make a case by submitting the experiences of fictional movie characters as evidence?
I don’t know who any of the other people are and don’t care. I never said that everyone convicted of stuff is always guilty. I just don’t particularly give a damn about what Mumia has to say. I don’t give a rat’s ass if Jello or anyone thinks he’s innocent. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced and I’m glad he’s stinking up a concrete cell instead of my neighborhood.
We all have that desire in us somewhere, even if most are too pussified to admit it.
I’ve thought about killing a homeless person randomly, because it would be easier to get away with and it’s easy to feel contempt towards them.
I wouldn’t do it with my full wits about me–my moral code would deny the impulse.
However in an intoxicated state I have nearly committed murder before and probably could do it in the future if the right elements were in place.
It’s something I worry about at times, not from a moral standpoint necessarily but because I don’t want to go to jail.
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Yeah cause everyone convicted of whatever they’re accused of always did it…
Like these people
Johnny Frank Garrett
Wayne Felker
Thomas and Meeks Griffin
Carlos DeLuna
Tom Robinson
Late,
grmpysmrf
Tom Robinson?
Are you seriously trying to make a case by submitting the experiences of fictional movie characters as evidence?[/reply]
LOL thought I’d throw him in there and see if anyone noticed!!
I don’t know who any of the other people are and don’t care.
You would care if they were you… Those were all people who were convicted of crimes in the US and executed and then later found to have been innocent.
I never said that everyone convicted of stuff is always guilty. I just don’t particularly give a damn about what Mumia has to say. I don’t give a rat’s ass if Jello or anyone thinks he’s innocent. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced and I’m glad he’s stinking up a concrete cell instead of my neighborhood.
How irresponsible is this ^? Reuben Carter I’m sure is glad you’re not in charge of the justice system.
So what makes Mumia’s “conviction” legit and not worthy of your concern when a ton of other evidence says contrary.
I admit I know of Mumia because of Jello and RATM and I’ve read up on the the guy because of them but I don’t jump on the band wagon because of them. Mumia was never proven to have killed Faulkner. witnesses were withheld. At one point the widow of Faulkner told the press how Mumia smiled at her and laughed when the prosecution held up her husbands bloody shirt. Which was bullshit because Mumia had already been thrown of the courtroom for contempt, so that bitch could either see through walls or she lied straight out…
It’s an interesting case.
Late,
grmpysmrf