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Would you KILL one person to end terrorism?

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Would you KILL one person to end terrorism?

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I am asking this for some insight into different personalities here on joeuser.

I would pick that Idaho molester to kill, no remorse, no guilt.

Now for the bloody part, if you choose to kill someone, it must be done by cutting their throat.

Lets see.
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Reply #51 from JoeUser Forums Top
#53 by Tarah (Anonymous user)
Friday, July 22, 2005


Oh my G.- concerning the comments on this last one, stunned me. THE REPLY BY JOEBLOG IS RIGHT ON! ONE I HAD NOT EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT. TIME TO CAFFINE UP MY THINKING AND CONSIDERING.
I had been going through reading the different comments and trying to decided if I could do something like that. I mean, kill one person if it ended terrorism. It's not in my nature to kill, and the question is a tough one. I am new to this site, but love it. Nothing makes me happier than to consider questions of great magnatuide. And how I would respond.
As I was reading what I kept thinking was that if one person could end terrorism, by killing, wouldn't it have ended by now?


yes it should have ended it, but my question has no right or wrong answers, it just gives me some insights into the responder.
Reply #52 from JoeUser Forums Top
This article is really not whether we are physically capable of killing the terrorist or child molester, it's about our mental/emotional ability.

I've been thinking about it, and I suppose that I would decide to do it. I would have to deal with taking a life, emotionally, and I would grieve for doing it, but at the same time, I would rather that a terrorist or a child killer die than worry about them walking out the door and killing my loved ones.
Siege of Centauri
Reply #53 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply By: CariElfPosted: Friday, July 22, 2005This article is really not whether we are physically capable of killing the terrorist or child molester, it's about our mental/emotional ability. I've been thinking about it, and I suppose that I would decide to do it. I would have to deal with taking a life, emotionally, and I would grieve for doing it, but at the same time, I would rather that a terrorist or a child killer die than worry about them walking out the door and killing my loved ones.


you got it! we are all capable of killing to protect, but I wanted to see who would make a choice to do it.
Reply #54 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't want to argue semantics, but "over thinking a simple question" is only possible when the question IS a simple one, which yours doesn't seem to be. You seem to be saying that killing someone is just a matter of answering a "simple" question, which, if you have a son/daugher in law enforcement, and ask them, they'll tell you that it's never simple. By the way, your original question was about terrorism, but you wrote about "that Idaho molester" as an example, and molestation is not terrorism on the scale your question was originally posed under. Been to London lately?
Reply #55 from JoeUser Forums Top
58 by little_whip
Saturday, July 23, 2005


Hey MM, you've been spoofed by Handy Hank, lol.


I saw that, is not copying someone the sincerest form of flattery? or something like that.

btw still waiting for your "constructive critisism" email
Reply #56 from JoeUser Forums Top
I wouldn't kill someone to stop terrorism, but it has nothing to do with good vs. evil. I refuse to buy into a thought that I can somehow control the world to be more like *I* think it should be. That is the way to the dark side
Reply #57 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply By: OckhamsRazorPosted: Saturday, July 23, 2005I wouldn't kill someone to stop terrorism, but it has nothing to do with good vs. evil. I refuse to buy into a thought that I can somehow control the world to be more like *I* think it should be. That is the way to the dark side


good point. can one evil negate another evil.. you are right, it cannot.
Reply #58 from JoeUser Forums Top
I am late to this party but... yes, in a heartbeat.
Reply #59 from JoeUser Forums Top
I will hold the victim for you, the victim is a convicted child molester and killer, would that make it easier?


It wouldn't make it any easier. It wouldn't make a difference, really. You may as well be a terrorist yourself. They think it's okay to kill one, or fifty, or several thousand people to end western imperialism. That it doesn't work - that people aren't going to give up a weapon of warfare and power known to be effective - is the simple fact of human existence.

If it was indeed possible to end terrorism through killing a single man, i imagine that it would be suicide, because I'd be killing the last man left alive. And I have no desire to do that.
Reply #60 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply By: greywarPosted: Sunday, July 24, 2005I am late to this party but... yes, in a heartbeat.


better late grey.. and somehow I knew you would.
Reply #61 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply By: cactoblastaPosted: Wednesday, July 27, 2005I will hold the victim for you, the victim is a convicted child molester and killer, would that make it easier?It wouldn't make it any easier. It wouldn't make a difference, really. You may as well be a terrorist yourself. They think it's okay to kill one, or fifty, or several thousand people to end western imperialism. That it doesn't work - that people aren't going to give up a weapon of warfare and power known to be effective - is the simple fact of human existence.If it was indeed possible to end terrorism through killing a single man, i imagine that it would be suicide, because I'd be killing the last man left alive. And I have no desire to do that.


your a good man cacto, with firm convictions, we can just agree to disagree about this subject like gentlemen.

Me terrorist? at one time long ago in a galaxy far far away, the NVA and charlie might have thought me as one.