Maybe you aren’t very smart?
There were 69 million germans in germany in 1939. You’d kill those people to avenge 6 million?
You’re saying that you would kill innocents. And you think this is OK?
Not to avenge, to save. And not just those six million, but dozens more killed by the end of the war.
And yes, absolutely.
Then you are a sociopath, by definition, and by your logic I would be justified in killing you preemptively in order to protect my life and interests.
I think it’s rather a bit like the one-upmanship that happens whenever a thread turns to discussion of pedophiles and the joy people gain from their suffering (“Jail rape is too good for them” and such). Of course, it’s even worse in this case, since we’re talking about inflicting horror on innocent people, but there seems to me to be a similar root, a desire to prove out loud “I love (my) children so much”.
Would you press a button to kill all Palestinians? After all, a lot of people are killed by them.
Wow…if this is what being a parent does to some people, I am very frightened for the world.
I mean, I could understand, if not agree with, people who would say “I would kill a small group of people to save my child if I had to, and then I would feel sick over it” or something like that. But murdering othe people’s kids? Killing whole countries? That’s messed up.
And in response to what some people asked of others in this thread, I would absolutely not have wanted my parents to become murderers to save me. Do you know the kind of guilt and pressure that would put on your kid, even if you don’t care about the people you killed? To have them know that they were responsible for many other people dying for their one meager little life? You can’t count on your kid being a stone-cold sociopath like you, who would take that lightly.
S’okay, let’s try something ever so slightly more personal. Your little daughter has degenerative liver disease and is next on the transplant list. Sadly she has been waiting awhile and no suitable donor has emerged. If one doesn’t in the next week or two, she’s going to die. Then in the evening, in the midst of a big rain storm, while wandering around melancholy in the rain, you see a little child you know slightly from the neighborhood about the same age playing around by a river. All you have to do is submerge her until she is braindead and then make a panicky 911 call, reporting that you found her floating. You can even call before drowning the kid to give it a better shot of someone arriving on time. You vaguely remember her parents and think they might be the type to consent to a donation.
Do you murder the child for a reasonable shot at saving your daughter?
What if you didn’t know the child at all, but somehow magically KNEW they were a perfect match and murdering them would definitely save your daughter’s life?
Oh. Then you’re a sick, genocidal piece of shit. :dubious:
all the same immature posturing. that was the other type of thing that Iwas thinking of.
Am I threatening you?
They’re not a genocidal threat. At least not yet.
Let me give you a hypothetical question:
Some random country - say, Belgium - is about to launch a nuclear misslile at your city, killing a million people, includinh you and everyone you love. The only, and I mean only, way to stop it is to launch a nuclear strike on Brussels, killing a million people over there. Would you launch that preemptive strike?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to destroy the launch facilities, rather than a city?
And if the launch facilities are in the center of the city?
It’s a hypothetical question.
No, it sounds more like a question the keeps getting reworded until the desired response is given.
When you said you’d personally kill a whole school full of children and/or every last Australian personally, I knew you were a very disturbed man. With this new paragraph, you reaffirm your willingness to be a blood-drenched mass murderer and your belief that killing countless people with your own hands would be right and justified. Then you have the unmitigated gall to suggest that every one of us is just as blood-crazed as you because we live in countries with armies.
You have done such a spectacular job of painting yourself as a savage that everything I have written about you pales by comparison.
It’s a stupid hypothetical question.
You’re proposing to commit genocide to prevent genocide. Going back to your example, you’re not proposing to kill all the Germans in Germany. You’re not proposing to kill every registered Nazi. You’re not proposing to kill the German government. You’re proposing murdering ‘every German on the planet’.
Justify yourself.
I didn’t reword it, I just clarified it. I said in the original hypothetical, that the only way to prevent the launch is to destroy the city. Therere only two options - destroy, or be destroyed.
Why are you dodging the question?
Actually, it’s an extremely relevant hypothetical, and has been since the begonning of the nuclear age.
And I don’t have to justify myself.
Ok, fine. Only the Germans in Germany (and those invading other countries, of course). Happy now? Will you answer my question?
In other words, it’s okay for you to kill other people’s children to save your own, but it’s not okay for other people to kill your child in order to save theirs.
What makes you so special?
Easy question to answer.
I don’t kill.
For any reason.