# How many innocents would you kill to save the life of the person you love most? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-innocents-would-you-kill-to-save-the-life-of-the-person-you-love-most/624165 "2012-06-05T15:57:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-innocents-would-you-kill-to-save-the-life-of-the-person-you-love-most/624165/81 "2012-06-11T08:09:42Z")
Well, the mooks are ignorant of what going on. And we’re all supposed to fight ignorance, aren’t we? So, as a good doper, I fight, and they die. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-innocents-would-you-kill-to-save-the-life-of-the-person-you-love-most/624165/82 "2012-06-11T10:31:01Z")
Not a one - that’s _even assuming_ I’m the kind of person who _would_ kill them if they were knowingly evil (which I’m not), I already know they’re innocent dupes. I’m afraid I’ll have to turn to Carrot here: “Personal isn’t the same as important” ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-innocents-would-you-kill-to-save-the-life-of-the-person-you-love-most/624165/83 "2012-06-11T13:51:15Z")
Pft. I thought “innocents” was going to mean babies or something, which would be a toughie. I don’t think I could make myself move my hand to kill a baby even if I had to in order to save the world and save millions of other babies. By comparison, this one is easy. Bye, mooks. Terribly sorry! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-innocents-would-you-kill-to-save-the-life-of-the-person-you-love-most/624165/84 "2012-06-11T14:25:01Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > well, the mooks are ignorant of what going on. And we’re all supposed to fight ignorance, aren’t we? So, as a good doper, i fight, and they die. ftw. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-innocents-would-you-kill-to-save-the-life-of-the-person-you-love-most/624165/85 "2012-06-11T16:58:28Z")
To save my loved ones, a gauntlet of Mooks? Regardless of their morality or reasoning, they die. I sleep well that night. To save my loved ones, a gauntlet of friends and aquaintences for some reason turned against me? I, with a heavy heart, slay them to save my One True Love. Cherubic children, toddlers, with wide eyes not comprehending what is going on, that I must kill to advance to save my OTL? I may need therapy, possibly, and probably would not sleep well, but I will bathe in their blood if I must to save the One. The only thing I would hesitate to do is end my own life to save theirs. For reasons far to complicated to go into here, but even then I would probably pull the trigger with the name being the last words on my lips. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-innocents-would-you-kill-to-save-the-life-of-the-person-you-love-most/624165/86 "2012-06-11T17:06:17Z")
> [@Vihaga](#): > > Pft. I thought “innocents” was going to mean babies or something, which would be a toughie. Someone other than I will have to write that one, sorry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-innocents-would-you-kill-to-save-the-life-of-the-person-you-love-most/624165.md?page=4)