The question is not are you some pyscho that could go out and kill a bunch of people.

What I mean is if you were in a situation where a family member or other loved one was in a life/death situation, could you kill their attacker ?

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Well, I wouldn't really know unless it really happened would I? Kill their attacker I guess yes. I wouldn't have any choice. The question is whether I'll be able to live with it afterwards... that I don't know. Hopefully I'll never have to find out eh?

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In a word, yes. If a loved one or friend was about to come to harm because some son of a bitch was holding a gun to their head or likewise I wouldn't hesitate to kill the attacker. However that being said they would have to be in immediate danger, I could never kill someone in cold blood.

But like you say fym, I don't know I could live with it afterwards.I hope I'm never in the situation where I have to make that split second, life changing decision.

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Problem is, you don't know. Some people are less hesitant to shoot someone through the head than others, often while they themselves would never suspect themselves capable of the fact.

Perhaps when someone holds a gun to a relative, you faint or freeze. It happens to a lot of people not accustomed to those kind of situations.

Killing someone is not exactly a choice but more of a natural response to a situation, you don't wake up and say to yourself, next time someone threatens my family, I kill him. Personally, I hope I don't have to kill someone, but when (;)) I do, I know it will be the only way out of the situation. I may be a pacifist, but I am also a black-belt pacifist .

Mr U

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Thats a saying if ever I saw one, a black belt pacifist.

You are right though, it is hard to say how you would react in any given situation, I can sit here now and say I wouldn't hesitte, but I have never been in a situation.

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Aren't all black belts pacifists? ;)
You're right, though. It's almost impossible to tell. Big Tough Guys might whimper, Wimps might throw themselves into the bullet's path. We will never know, and pacifist that I am, it's been a constant nagging question - uncertainty - in my mind.

I was talking to a close friend of mine, back when I was still in the army. I was with the infantry, so the possibility of shooting someone was definitely there. He was a clerk, and he once asked me if I would shoot. Not with family being threatened or anything like that. Straight out war. 'Of course,' I said...'Won't you?'
He insisted that he would never pull the trigger. Too much of a conscience, he said. Given the situations of war and the fact that I had been through more ugly grunt-mentality days than he had, I couldn't believe him. It took me a minute before realising I probably had no reason to believe myself, too. Even if it were a war and every man was for himself....would I do it? I don't know. When can a situation truly be beyond hope for each of us; enough to squeeze that trigger?

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They're already dead.

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It really depends for me. If it was myself or someone I loved being attacked with the threat of death then I think i would try to defend myself or loved one but i am not saying i would end up killing the person.

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hummm i coudn't kill someone in cold blood. only if i'm realy forced to do it

Who needs to kill when you can learn martial arts and disable the attacker or paralyze them... Then call the police and let them handle it from there... If that person is persistant and keeps coming back then use deadlier techniques... Or just break the attackers bones to get the message across that you don't want him there... Eventually the attacker will learn..

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We're more saying if there was a family member or likewise involved where they were about to be murdered, you didn't have the opportunity to take time to make a decision but you could do something about it...something permenant.

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