Would you kill the person who is about to kill?

[Edwardo Piet]

"Ha, will I do?"

"No Hugh, I meant mug in the sense of drinking vessel".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eve1qWxki2I

[Edwardo Piet]

Don't mean to go off-topic here but seen as we are being silly anyway did you know that Micheal Jackson was not only white but was actually gay and 6 foot 5 and ... well basically Michael Jackson was Stephen Fry?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJW_yTbYGoI

[Spooky]

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.

Would you kill?

Without hesitation.

[robvalue]

In that case, there is a follow up question...

Are you killing him without hesitation because of the situation, or because that's just what you do?

[Edwardo Piet]

What are you talking about? EVERYONE knows m.h is only joking!!

Haven't you heard! He's totally non-violent!!! He's a Jain! He must be: I saw him wearing a t-shirt with a swastika on it.

(For the record, no I didn't see that, I'm joking lol).

[Natachan]

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.

Would you kill?

Wow that's broad.

But no.

I am not responsible for another person's actions. If he kills that puts no moral weight on me. I can report to the police what happened, but I do not have the authority to do so.

Now this is assuming I have no knowledge of the motives or time leading up to this. This is like saying I walk around the corner and see a guy pointing a gun at someone else with no other info. What kind of body language is going on? What does the scene look like?

[Reforged]

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.

Would you kill?

Yes.

[DespondentFishdeathMasochismo]

If the person you are killing is actually helping someone get away with a crime, you are definitely complicit in the crime. So I guess based on the premise that there's the possibility that it could be doing more harm than good, also possibly making you complicit in a crime, I would say I would absolutely not kill the person. If someone was robbing a store, the store owner comes out with a huge sawed off shot gun, he's about to blow the head off of the robber, but you instead choose to take the life of the store owner, you'd have made the situation arguably worse. With nothing to go off of but the extremely vague premise, I'd have to weigh the probability of the possible outcome not being in my favor.

The way I see it, the other side of the argument is, is killing always wrong? Well if you see someone about to kill someone else, if you are choosing to commit the very same act which you condemn. So to say you're killing them out of principle is mere hypocrisy. So I say, no. Absolutely, do not kill the person unless it was a fucking murderer, about to kill an innocent person.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

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.

Would you kill?

Without hesitation.

You see a guy who's going to kill another guy so you take action to kill him.  Someone sees you getting ready to kill a guy and he takes action to kill you.  The process could become infinite.  Each person wants to kill the other guy simply because he wants to kill someone.  He knows nothing about the situation or why the person he's aiming at is aiming at the other person.  In the Twilight Zone the first person who is trying to kill the person is trying to stop him from killing the last person in an infinite ring of potential killer/saviors. In the end everyone has been killed.

[CapnAwesome]

I'd push a fat man in the way of the trolley....er bullet.