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Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
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Also, Morty chose to kill the killer in "Mortynight Run", Season 2 Episode 2. It didn't work out too well for... anyone.
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November 24, 2015 at 7:39 pm
(This post was last modified: November 24, 2015 at 7:40 pm by Chad32.)
I don't know. Would I kill someone to save a stranger? I know if someone looked like they were about to kill my nieces, I'd beat them half to death even if there were other options on hand. Of course this assumes I'm any good with a gun anyway.
 Probably the best thing for the both of us is if the one without the weapon hid behind me, and the would-be killer didn't call my bluff when I said I'd pull the trigger if he didn't back off.
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Here is something else. This scenario makes no account of the weapon I am using. For example if I'm using a knife, it will we much quicker to hamstring the killer then actually kill him. People can take a long time to die.
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I'd probably have too much of a WTF moment to react in time. So, I'm leaning "no".
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 RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
November 24, 2015 at 11:29 pm
(This post was last modified: November 24, 2015 at 11:31 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 24, 2015 at 7:16 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: So, you see an individual that is about to kill another person. You don't know the killer or the other person (both adults, let's leave kids out of this, both same race and sex). There are only moments to stop the killer and your only option is to kill. Not wound, not talk, not call police. I would kill under many other conceivable circumstances, but not under that precise one. 
This is situational, so to be intellectually honest, I don't think I can give an answer that would be true in all scenarios.
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I'd have to say no, I wouldn't be able to kill with this type of unknown(s).
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Kill them both.
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