(April 27, 2011 at 11:28 pm)Cinjin Cain Wrote:

People wish I was sometimes... then I at least wouldn't kick their asses at chess and other non-haxxor board games

The injustice would be a huge burden to carry. A lot would depend on how your life in prison panned out. Subject to a depraved regime you'd be a different person to someone who managed to foster some respect and be given room to heal.
Life seems to be an exercise in self control sometimes.
Coming out of this situation having mastered your own skeletons seems like the best possible outcome to me.
To go kill the guy would make you as bad as him so you lose more than him. Maybe he turned around, maybe his avoidance of the law made him uber corrupt.

(April 28, 2011 at 3:29 am)fr0d0 Wrote: The injustice would be a huge burden to carry. A lot would depend on how your life in prison panned out. Subject to a depraved regime you'd be a different person to someone who managed to foster some respect and be given room to heal.
Life seems to be an exercise in self control sometimes.
Coming out of this situation having mastered your own skeletons seems like the best possible outcome to me.
To go kill the guy would make you as bad as him so you lose more than him. Maybe he turned around, maybe his avoidance of the law made him uber corrupt.

So you're saying it would be very possible for you to obstain from killing your family's killer?

Yeah I think so, given my experience. Given the recovery time especially. Heat of the moment... might be different.. but you removed that option.

(April 28, 2011 at 3:36 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Yeah I think so, given my experience. Given the recovery time especially. Heat of the moment... might be different.. but you removed that option.

yes I did .. on purpose. It says more about a person if they can sit and plan a revenge killing.

I think MANY people are afraid to answer this thread regardless.

I have much easier problems with people who have done the dirty on me over my life. I can easily find myself plotting revenge, but control that and stay positive instead... because I think: why let their bad deed make me sink to depravity. I don't want to be like them. I have to conquer that... then I'm the winner. People pass on bad stuff that's done to them, breaking that cycle is the best we can do, I recon.

(April 27, 2011 at 8:30 pm)Cinjin Cain Wrote: Zenith posed the question, Would You Do It? in the Atheism Forum a couple days ago. Could you murder a man in cold-blood for his money if you yourself were made destitute. The scenario was not based in any kind of reality and the perameters were very undefined to say the least. So here you go ... this is the new hypothetical:

You will have to make an assumption of how you will feel in the hypothetical future. Make that assumption based off how you feel currently and how you might feel assuming that the following were completely real:

#1. You are a moderatly successful person in life. Not Rich. Not Poor.
#2. You have a spouse and a family pet both of whom you love dearly.
#3. One night, you arrive home late to find a strange man assaulting your spouse.
#4. You fight with the man but he overwhelms you, knocking you unconscious.
#5. You awaken the next morning to find both your spouse and your pet have been mutilated and killed.
#6. Knowing that you saw his face, the man framed you for your spouses murder and you receive a life sentence in prison.
#7. Thanks to bleeding heart liberals, overcrowding of federal prisons is common and you are parolled after 21 years of serving your sentence.
#8 You now have nothing. You are old. You are an x-con. You are destitute, and you will never see the life and famiy you were supposed to have.
#9 You see the mans face in a local advertisement for city councilman.

What do you do?
Can you kill a man for taking everything from you? You would only gain the money he has on-hand and perhaps some of his possessions. It's unlikely that there will be any evidence left to find him guilty and exonerate you. Maybe you leave vengeance to your god ... after all he said, "vengeance is mine saith the lord."


Or do you look at the man's face and think, "Yeah, I could definitely kill you."

Kill the bastard... after all you are just returning the 'blessing'

If I was wrongly jailed for years for something I didn't do whilst the arsehole runs free, I'd be a completely different person. My only purpose would be to kill him and as painfully and slowly as possible. Then die myself. The hate I'd have for the injustice would be too great and life would lose all value to me. I'll seek justice then I'll seek peace.

(April 28, 2011 at 1:50 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: I'll seek justice then I'll seek peace.