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Are there any instances in which you could see yourself murdering or hurting someone?

Somer Thompson's mother announced to her unknown killer, that "we'll get you". I would have a hard time not wanting to harm a person that did something like this to my child. Are there any times you would feel justified in murdering or harming someone?

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raerae2
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Marked as Best! October 24, 2009 06:34 AM
Yes. In self-defense or in defense of my family. I would never seek out anyone just to kill them for no reason. I would never seek out anyone who I was mad at with the intention of murdering them or hurting them. I would only react with violence if someone was attacking me and/or my family and was trying to hurt any of us.

Whomever killed Somer Thompson, has what's coming to them. Somer's mother wants that person to pay for a very long time. She said so. Therefore, she is not looking to kill the person who killed her daughter, she looking to make them suffer in a cage in a prison for the rest of their life. I know people who have been to prison. They have told me that even with as bad as many of the people are in prison, the ones who are the lowest of the low and the ones who catch the most hell while they are in prison are the ones who are locked up for killing or molesting children. Even the worst of the worst think that anyone who kills or molests children are sicker than sick and they are more than happy to make those kinds men pay for their crime...over and over and over again.
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quesera
quesera
October 23, 2009 11:19 PM
Sure. If I was defending myself or another, I think I could do it pretty easily. I also know I have a strong streak for revenge when someone hurts me or someone I care about. There are definitely people in the world who, if I got a chance, I would seriously injure or kill. It makes me sound like such a terrible person, wanting to dole out of the death penalty for causing someone in my life emotional or physical harm, but I truly feel there are people in the world that are just unnecessary. I'm not really qualified to be some divine judge and jury, but that honestly wouldn't stop me. I just have something in me that wants to get revenge, and I know that I would indulge it if the situation were just right (low or zero chance of being caught). I'm not saying it's a moral thing, I just know myself.
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unwirklich
unwirklich
October 23, 2009 11:20 PM
I could see lots of instances. Endangerment or threat to my family or self. Lack of general worth to society. Dishonorable. Rapists... thinking about it I could make quite a list. I think I did once in a journal... I must find it...

Anyway, would I actually kill anyone? likely not. I have a family that wouldn't do well with me in prison or executed, but hypothetically.. I'd kill lots of people for a variety or reasons.
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dsaldridge
dsaldridge
October 23, 2009 11:27 PM
The only instance where I can see me murdering someone is in defense of myself or my children. I can see myself hurting someone in defense of a friend, or even a stranger, but murdering them would be accidental.

If you're talking about premeditated murder or assault, I can't see myself doing that at all. It's not my place to decide if someone deserves to die or be hurt. People do horrible things, it's true, and it would be hard not to want to see someone dead who had hurt my children, but I just don't see it happening.
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gno
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October 23, 2009 11:32 PM
Of course. Generally speaking I'm not a "hunter", I'm a "farmer". I plant things and watch them grow, I don't have the predatory instinct in me. In fact it's why I'm also not literally a hunter (symbolism meets reality!), I don't squish bugs, and I swerve for squirrels. I treat animals like my family, and I've never punched someone in the face (on purpose).

But if someone hurt my family or put them in danger, I KNOW I could kill. And I probably would. When my husband was hit by a guy on the expressway -- the other guy decided he didn't want that exit ramp at the last minute and blindly swerved back on to the expressway and into my husband's car, with his whole family in the car -- I got on the phone and started screaming at him in tongues. My voice reached an octave and pitch I didn't even know existed. I threatened him with horrible, horrible things. And as I was waiting to hear what was unfolding at the crash site I was pacing back and forth in my house, a hare's breath away from getting in the car and going down to the site (only about 4-5 miles from my house). And I KNOW if I had, I would've physically attacked the guy. The adrenaline was completely in control and I reached a violent place. Truly and completely.

So yes, from that alone I know. If someone ever hurt my family I DO have it deep down in there to hurt them or kill them with extreme pain and torment.

But the spiders? I'll take them outside to a lush new home under a tree.
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