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Tue 5 Jun, 2007 08:03 am
1. Someone tries to force you to commit suicide and hurts everyone around you, including your family, in horrible ways (though surreptitiously) to make you give up life. Would you sacrifice your life in such a situation, even if you have no suicidal tendencies in general?
2. Hypnosis. If someone commits murder while under hypnosis, what is the punishment/law for that?
1.if someone hurt the people around me i wouldnt kill myself, id kill them
Anwer:no
2.i have no clue, i think they would still get charged with murder.
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I wouldn't think of it as suicide, rather sacrificing my life for them.
2.
I don't believe a person can be made to commit murder while hypnotized. That like an urban legend.
From what I know about hypnosis, you can't force another person to do what they don't want to do. But if the wish is there, who knows?
Re: Two hypothetical situations
literarypoland wrote:Quote:1. Someone tries to force you to commit suicide and hurts everyone around you,
including your family, in horrible ways (though surreptitiously) to make you give up life.
Would you sacrifice your life in such a situation,
even if you have no suicidal tendencies in general?
No; I 'd do my best to kill or otherwise disable HIM
and avenge his victims.
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2. Hypnosis. If someone commits murder while under hypnosis,
what is the punishment/law for that?
That amounts to an insanity defense,
that he did not know what he was doing
nor did he know that it was morally nor legally improper.
Incidentally,
I do not support insanity defenses.
A man shud be judged by his conduct,
not by what he was thinking.
David
I don't believe in hypnosis.
I know, hypnotism always seemed like such a crock.
You'd have to be a pretty weak minded individual to be that suggestable. I don't mean killing, I mean doing anything because you're "in their power".
There seems to be some debate these days as to evidence from court witnesses obtained thanks to hypnosis. Try: hypnosis murder on Google.
If the law makes an exception for people under "hypnosis" then people will allow themselves to break the law while being hypnotized. If the law makes no exception, then they won't let themselves be "hypnotized" to that extent. It's like when you feel yourself getting drunk and you act drunker than you are. Hypnosis is a play-along game played by both people, but if the subject knows there are consequences for playing along...they are much less likely to do so.
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