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does everybody have it in them to kill?

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Linkat
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 10:59 am
Like Gus, I too have killed. Although I usually do like to catch a bug and set it free when one enters the house - I have killed them too. Usually spiders - because they give me the willies. Flies or moths, I try to catch and set free.

The other things I have killed - lobsters and clams. Love those suckers.
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cjhsa
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 11:22 am
If there is such a place, there's whole herds of squirrels waiting to ambush me in purgatory.
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flushd
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 06:55 pm
I believe all humans beings have it in them to kill. Not just bugs and creatures, but other human beings.

Humans are unpredictable. The veneer of civility and peace is thin. We all have a dark side. A mean and selfish side.

That doesn't mean you are meant to be a serial killer! It just means that you could be if you wanted and chose to be. Well, maybe not even then, because you might get caught first,,...but yeah.
Laughing
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snood
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 07:30 pm
What I meant is that IMO not everyone could kill, period. I think meekness or cowardice or fear or other traits run deep enough in some people that they just could not do it - especially if they had any moment at all to think about it first.

And I'm still in the Army. And I don't think military training changes what a person basically is to begin with.
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flushd
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 07:52 pm
That makes sense, snood.
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 08:21 pm
no problem for me...
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snood
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 08:26 pm
What "no problem" are you referring to, exactly? Are you saying its no problem for you to kill, or are you saying you have no problem with the opinions in the posts immediately preceding yours, or...?
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 08:29 pm
I'm saying that if the need arose I would not have a problem killing someone.
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snood
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 08:33 pm
noted
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Lash
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 08:38 pm
I would eat the corpse of the person who made me mad enough to kill...

...because I am a quaint and self-possessed old lady.
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 08:43 pm
Lash wrote:
I would eat the corpse of the person who made me mad enough to kill...

...because I am a quaint and self-possessed old lady.


if I ever make you that mad will you please eat me first :wink:
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Lash
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 08:44 pm
Get in line, sex maniac.
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 08:46 pm
building tension there you hot little tart?
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Lash
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 08:48 pm
<giggles>
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Bella Dea
 
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Reply Fri 9 Mar, 2007 07:49 am
snood wrote:

And I'm still in the Army. And I don't think military training changes what a person basically is to begin with.


Do you think then that people who join the military have that in them to kill before entering?

I've always been curious about this....if it really does take a special kind of person to be a soldier or if anyone can be trained.
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cjhsa
 
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Reply Fri 9 Mar, 2007 08:45 am
I just destroyed a whole culture.






Live blueberry yogurt culture.
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au1929
 
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Reply Fri 9 Mar, 2007 08:59 am
Yes, under the right circumstances IMO we all could kill.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Fri 9 Mar, 2007 09:05 am
I agree. I do think circumstances have a lot to do with it.

For example, I think if the only way to do it is with a knife, I think people would hesitate in a way they wouldn't if they could kill by pushing a button, say.

Plus motivation. I have no desire to kill anyone and hope I would never have to, but I can't imagine that I wouldn't find it within me to kill if it would save my daughter's life.
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noinipo
 
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Reply Fri 9 Mar, 2007 09:08 am
Young recruits in boot camp are stripped of their 'softer' emotions and rebuilt as cold killers. Soldiers get medals for doing things that earn them jail time in real life.
I saw a TV special on 'The Marines', and several generals said on camera that there is nothing noble or human about war. It is a horrible business.
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cjhsa
 
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Reply Fri 9 Mar, 2007 09:12 am
Were they French Canadian generals?
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