# Have you ever killed somone? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 24, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267 "2012-07-24T18:20:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/1 "2012-07-24T18:20:52Z")
So have you ever killed another human being? Private poll to follow…details if you care to share. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/2 "2012-07-24T18:33:53Z")
I feel I have some responsibility for the deaths of other specific people even though there’s no rational reason to do so. But I didn’t mean to click on the vote button, so 1 vote for ‘Yes,other’ shouldn’t really count. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/3 "2012-07-24T19:24:54Z")
Day ain’t over yet. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/4 "2012-07-24T19:33:15Z")
Voted no. For all I know that girl was just faking. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/5 "2012-07-24T19:49:44Z")
Not yet. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/6 "2012-07-24T19:50:55Z")
Why no “I don’t know” response option? (Not that I need it, but there are some situations where it would apply.) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/7 "2012-07-24T20:32:15Z")
D&D characters probably don’t count, for purposes of this poll. So, “no”. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/8 "2012-07-24T20:36:19Z")
I have given some vicious paper cuts but not fatally. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/9 "2012-07-24T21:12:49Z")
I’m assuming Sims don’t count either, so that would be a No. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/10 "2012-07-24T21:15:15Z")
No. But I’ve had pretty vivid dreams about it happening and I always remember feeling pretty relieved when I wake up. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/11 "2012-07-24T21:17:52Z")
No. If I kill them they won’t understand. _I need them to understand!_ ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/12 "2012-07-24T21:51:19Z")
Well, yes, . . . but interns do that from time to time. We have to learn, eh? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/13 "2012-07-24T23:09:40Z")
The closest I know of is (accidentally) convincing my (now ex-)girlfriend to dump her fiance in another country that she was going to help get a green card because he was afraid he was going to die from the civil unrest. Yeah, I’m pretty sure he was just being manipulative, but I still felt rather bad about that. Especially since it turned out that she liked me much more than I liked her. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/14 "2012-07-24T23:13:08Z")
No, but I have been in Reno. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/15 "2012-07-24T23:14:12Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > I’m assuming Sims don’t count either, so that would be a No. Oh. Good thing video games don’t count, or my body count would be difficult to ascertain. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/16 "2012-07-24T23:14:59Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Why no “I don’t know” response option? (Not that I need it, but there are some situations where it would apply.) Yeah, can any of us say with absolute certitude no? For all we know back when we were small walking talking germ factories we gave some old person the cold that killed them. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/17 "2012-07-24T23:34:57Z")
I have over 50k honorable kills in World of Warcraft. But they were honorable, so they don’t really count. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/18 "2012-07-24T23:52:57Z")
Only one qualification for ‘no?’ Not fair! ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/19 "2012-07-25T01:37:02Z")
What kind of person claims to have committed cold-blooded murder? Isn’t that the kind of thing you keep to yourself? ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267/20 "2012-07-25T02:17:47Z")
> [@j666](#): > > What kind of person claims to have committed cold-blooded murder? > > Isn’t that the kind of thing you keep to yourself? Never mind that six(!) people have so far selected that option; I have an idea that whoever picked that did it for the hell of it. Also, I can see why some selected other; how many people have indirectly died because you are alive (e.g. a factory worker in China dies while making something that you buy, although that is a big stretch to say that you were responsible, even in the most indirect way, since the product would still be made if you didn’t exist). Of course, I have intentionally killed countless animals (insects and mice, plus who knows how many more insects just from unintentionally stepping on them), but that isn’t included in the poll. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-killed-somone/629267.md?page=2)